Top 10 Reasons to Support Locally Owned Businesses
1. Local Character and Prosperity - In an increasingly
homogenized world, communities that preserve their
one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character have
an economic advantage.
2. Community Well-Being -Locally owned businesses
build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town
centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and
social relationships, and contributing to local causes.
3. Local Decision-Making - 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.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy - Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle
a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community.
5. Job and Wages -Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide
better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship -Entrepreneurship 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.
7. Public Benefits and Costs - Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure
and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls
8. Environmental Sustainability - Local stores help to
sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which
in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use,
habitat loss, and air and water pollution
9. Competition - A marketplace of tens of thousands of
small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation
and low prices over the long-term.
10.
Product Diversity -A multitude of small
businesses, each selecting products based, not on a
national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much
broader range of product choices.
*** Small business can change the dynamic of our community, it’s important that as we go about our day to
day habits we take the time to support the small business owners that are trying to build up our community. It’s
time to make Griffin a town we can all be proud of and a town we can Live, Work and Play in !