Top Reasons to Shop Local
1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity. If we want to protect our uniqueness and stay competitive as a viable city, we need to support our local economy which not only boosts our economy but also provides a good example to outside investors, visitors and consumers that they too can enjoy our character and prosperity.

2. Community Well-Being. Local Businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.

3. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy. Your dollars spent in locally directly impact our community. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.

4. Job and Wages. Local businesses create more jobs locally, provide better wages, increase benefits, etc.

5. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

6. Public Benefits and Costs. The more revenue kept locally, the more local costs will continue to decrease, the more community programs will benefit and the more citizens will benefit.

7. Environmental Sustainability. Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.

8. Competition. A viable marketplace of businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.

9. Product Diversity. A multitude of businesses means more products to choose from. And the more we support our community, the more local citizens and outside entrepreneurs will be willing to support our community through added business and economic support.