Good point. I've been making deliberate efforst to buy from locally owned merchants over the past 6 months. It's getting easier every day & I know the guy who I'm buying stuff from can support his family with the money. Plus he/she will turn around & spend their money in my office in return.
The local bike shop owner takes it even further. He buys all his toiletries from the loca grocery store & refuses to go to Wal-Mart. It's owned by a very wealthy local, but that very wealthy local spends his money here, has his warehouse that employs locals here & all his grocery stores are within 100 mile radius. He even bought his most recent appliances from a locally owned appliance dealer who sells fully US made appliances.
Buy anything at Wal-Mart & you'l guarantee that some of the profit will go to a stockholder or CEO who lives off the fat of the land & destroys local merchants by moving into small communities & ruining their livelihoods, all the while bringing down local wages & siphoning profits elsewhere.
Get your loccal shop to order them for you & you'll make sure you have a shop next time something breaks. And they might give you a discount if you mention you decided to come support them instead of Pricepoint.
Good point. I've been making deliberate efforst to buy from locally owned merchants over the past 6 months. It's getting easier every day & I know the guy who I'm buying stuff from can support his family with the money. Plus he/she will turn around & spend their money in my office in return.
The local bike shop owner takes it even further. He buys all his toiletries from the loca grocery store & refuses to go to Wal-Mart. It's owned by a very wealthy local, but that very wealthy local spends his money here, has his warehouse that employs locals here & all his grocery stores are within 100 mile radius. He even bought his most recent appliances from a locally owned appliance dealer who sells fully US made appliances.
Buy anything at Wal-Mart & you'l guarantee that some of the profit will go to a stockholder or CEO who lives off the fat of the land & destroys local merchants by moving into small communities & ruining their livelihoods, all the while bringing down local wages & siphoning profits elsewhere.
Get your loccal shop to order them for you & you'll make sure you have a shop next time something breaks. And they might give you a discount if you mention you decided to come support them instead of Pricepoint.
Good point. I've been making deliberate efforst to buy from locally owned merchants over the past 6 months. It's getting easier every day & I know the guy who I'm buying stuff from can support his family with the money. Plus he/she will turn around & spend their money in my office in return.
The local bike shop owner takes it even further. He buys all his toiletries from the loca grocery store & refuses to go to Wal-Mart. It's owned by a very wealthy local, but that very wealthy local spends his money here, has his warehouse that employs locals here & all his grocery stores are within 100 mile radius. He even bought his most recent appliances from a locally owned appliance dealer who sells fully US made appliances.
Buy anything at Wal-Mart & you'l guarantee that some of the profit will go to a stockholder or CEO who lives off the fat of the land & destroys local merchants by moving into small communities & ruining their livelihoods, all the while bringing down local wages & siphoning profits elsewhere.
Get your loccal shop to order them for you & you'll make sure you have a shop next time something breaks. And they might give you a discount if you mention you decided to come support them instead of Pricepoint.
There's a [really stinky] trailor park that I pass on my neighborhood ride and with each pass, I normally pick up a few Next riders that follow me for about a block or two.
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