Small Business Saturday is Saturday, November 25th -Shop Local
Shopping Local in Gardner is getting easier all the time as the Gardner Business Community grows. Downtown Gardner is getting spruced up and is especially attractive for shoppers this holiday season, 2023. Earlier in 2023, Gardner Magazine published an article on 23 Reasons to Shop Local in 2023, CLICK HERE.
Gardner Square Two recently published “The Circle of Shopping Local” which demonstrates that of every $100 spent locally, $68 stays in the community. This is in contrast to money spent online which could simply go to large corporations and have zero dollars going back to your community.
Local spending puts money back into the community and the employees of local businesses, supporting the retention of current jobs and the creation of new ones. And very often as was seen once again in a recent Gardner Magazine article, it is the local businesses who are supporting charities and local organizations. If you can, consider shopping local. It’s actually a way of giving back to yourself – if you really think about it.