WHY SHOP LOCALLY?

When you shop at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits:

1. A Significant amount of money re-circulates in Denver when purchases are made locally owned versus nationally owned businesses.

- Locally owned and operated retailers keep profits in the local economy and support other local business.

- For every $ 100 dollars spent at a local business, as much as $73 stays in the local economy, compared to $43 when the same amount is spent at a chain store. ("Andersonville Study of Retail Economics;" CivicEconomics, October 2004)

2. Local business are owned by people who live in your community and they are invested in your community's future.

- They hire local accountants, architects, designers, sign makers and so forth to help run their business.
3. Small business select products based not on a national sales plan but on their own interest and needs of their customers.

4. We remember your name.

5. Non-profits receive greater support.

- Non-profits organizations receive an average 250% greater support form local business owners than from non-local

6. Buying local means less packaging, less transportation, and a smaller carbon footprint.

7. We love you and want to support what you do as well.

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