Buy Local. Cherish Community.
Pick 3. Spend $50. Save the bricks and mortars our country...our communities are built upon.
Pick 3. - What 3 local, independently owned businesses would miss you if you disappeared? Stop in and say "hi!" Buy something that makes you smile. Your purchases are what keeps those businesses around.
Spend $50. - If half the employed population spent $50 a month at locally owned independent businesses, it would generate $42.6 billion in revenue.
68 - For every $100 spent in locally owned independent businesses, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expenditures. If you spend that in a national chain, only $43 stays here. If you buy it online, nothing comes home.
1 - the number of people it takes to start a trend. YOU.