Supporting Local

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Supporting Local Greater Gardner MA Businesses in 2023 – Shop Local, It Really Matters!

The suggestions are always there… support your local businesses, and Gardner Magazine has made these suggestions too. Let’s delve more into why it is so important and how exactly it matters. 23 Reasons for 2023!

1. Local and small businesses are the lifeline of every community. Preserving one-of-a-kind businesses and their distinctive character provides an economic advantage to the community.

2. Local businesses pay either real estate taxes or pay rent to landlords who do and those monies support the community.

3. You can feel good knowing that by supporting local small shops, you are helping to feed and nourish your neighbors, growing families, towns, and cities from the inside. Purchasing local helps grow other businesses as well as the local tax base.

4. Local contributes to community well-being. Vibrant town or city centers are sustained, linking your neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.

5. Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

6. A greater share of the dollars spent at locally owned businesses recycle back in the local economy and that benefits everyone.

7. Non profits tend to get greater support as local business owners generally donate more to local charities than non-local owners.

8. Unique Businesses Create Character & Prosperity. The unique character of your local community is defined in large part by the businesses that reside there, and that plays a big factor in your overall satisfaction with where you live and the value of your home and property.

9. Supporting local supports entrepreneurship which fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

10. A marketplace of many small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation over the long term.

11. Local businesses contribute to product diversity because each small business selects products based on the needs of their local customers and their own interests rather than pushing a national sales plan.

12. Small businesses bring timeless traditions, creativity, and originality.

13. Small business owners have lots of heart and deeply care for their customers.

14. Small business owners greatly appreciate and notice every order.

15. Small business owners deeply care about providing quality products for your hard-earned dollars.

16. You are supporting real, genuine people with real dreams, that have put their blood, sweat, tears, and money into these small businesses.

17. Your local business is the bread and butter of the world’s economy.

18. Supporting a local business helps you fund a better tomorrow. Local Business Owners invest in Community. Local businesses are owned by people who live in this community, are less likely to leave, and are more invested in the community’s welfare and future.

19. Supporting small and local is the best way to support local jobs. Most new jobs are provided by local businesses.

20. Supporting small business means supporting your local community. It guides your community to be more sustainable and it gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to succeed. When you support small businesses, you put smiles on the faces of your neighbors

21. A small business values happy customers more than the revenue or profits. And that relationship goes a long way.

22. Customer service is often better. When you look at google reviews for Gardner Massachusetts, for example, it is the locally-owned small businesses who have the highest scores.

23. Local businesses often hire people with more specific product expertise for better customer service. You are also going to see these people around town and they are less likely to blow you off or be rude because they have to face you day after day.