"The buying local movement started as a grassroots campaign to help re-build our local economy. Big box retailers, online merchants and massive Corporation downsizing, have drawn way too much resources out of our local economy and now it's time to take a stand and support the local retailers and the independent business owners behind them."
Got this quote from a friend's blog: http://freshdealsdirect.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-buy-local-top-10-reasons-why-you.html Read the blog to learn her 10 Reasons Why You Should Buy Local - makes sense to us! What do you think?
Absolutely! I support local small, independent businesses whenever possible :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the re-blog! I hope this article makes people stop and think. We NEED to support local if we are ever going to get our economy turned around!
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