Findlay Town Money Saver | December MID 2021

10 GREAT REASONS TO SHOP LOCALLY

1. Keep money in the neighborhood

A recent study in Chicago showed that locally owned businesses recirculate 70% more money back into the local community than chain stores, per square foot occupied. A space lled with a local business rather than a chain puts more dollars back into YOUR neighborhood.

2. Embrace what makes us di erent

The city of Findlay and the surrounding area makes us a city of neighborhoods where we shop, where we eat and where we hang out. Chain businesses change the character of our neighborhoods. If we wanted to live someplace that looked like everywhere else, we wouldn’t be living in the Findlay area.

3. Get better service

6. Help out the environment

Locally owned businesses can make more local purchases, requiring less transportation, and they generally set up shop in commercial corridors rather than developing on the fringe. This means less sprawl, congestion, habitat loss and pollution.

7. Support community groups

Non-pro ts range an average of 350% more support from local business owners than they do from non-locally owned businesses.

8. Put your taxes to good use

Local businesses in neighborhoods need comparatively less infrastructure investment and make more e cient use of public services as compared to nationally owned stores entering the community.

In a local business, you know the person behind

the

counter and they know you. They have a deep understanding of the products they’re selling and they take time to service their customers.

4. Create and keep good jobs

Small businesses are the largest employer nationally, and small businesses account for the vast majority of job growth. Locally owned businesses are far less likely to pull up stakes and move operations to another city or county, taking their jobs with them.

5. Promote competition and diversity

A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based on the needs of their local customers and not a national sales plan, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.

9. Vote with your dollars

A study in Austin, TX showed that if each household redirected just $100 of planned holiday spending from chain stores to locally owned merchants, the local economic impact would reach approximately $10 million.

10. Invest in the community

Local businesses are owned by people who live here, work here and are invested in the community with much more than just their dollars.