When you choose locally owned businesses, you make an investment in your community!
Shifting even 10% of your current purchases from non-local businesses TO local businesses makes a big difference and makes your voice heard in the Buy Local shift that is happening around the country. Wired Magazine recently reported that Small Businesses are also beginning to make their shift: to making and selling more products "Made in the USA."
When you spend your money at a locally owned business, 68% of that money stays in the LOCAL community compared to only 43% for non-local businesses.
Mid-Michigan has been hit harder than most parts of the Country. We have to GET VOCAL and support the people and businesses that make up our community. No one is going to do it for us. We have to do it.
When you join Buy Local you make a statement - you Get Vocal. You tell your local neighborhood businesses that you care and that you are making a commitment to thinking local and buying local when you shop!
