Why Buy Local? Here is a list of reasons why purchasing from local businesses is valuable to the community:
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 social relationships, and contributing to local causes.
3. Local Decision-Making: Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made by local people who live in the community and who will feel the impact of those decisions.
4. Jobs And Wages: Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
5. Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship fuels
6. Keeping Dollars In The Local Economy: When you purchase at locally owned businesses rather than nationally owned, more money is kept in the community because locally-owned businesses often purchase from other local businesses, service providers and farms. Buying local helps grow other businesses as well as our region’s tax base.
7. Environmental Impact Is Reduced: Local businesses make more local purchases requiring less transportation and usually set up shop in town centers rather than on the fringe. This generally means contributing less to sprawl, congestion, habitat loss, resource depletion and pollution.
8. Customer Service Is Often Better: Local businesses often hire people with more specific expertise and they invest in their employees for better customer service.
9. Local Business Owners Invest In Our Community: Local businesses are owned by people who live in the community. These owners are less likely to leave, and are more invested in the community's future.
10. Competition And Diversity Leads To More Consumer Choices: A marketplace of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
11. A Growing Body Of Economic Research Shows: In an increasingly homogenized world, entrepreneurs and skilled workers are more likely to invest and settle in communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character.
12. Unique Businesses Create Character & Prosperity: The unique character of your local community is defined in large part by the business that reside there, and that plays a big factor in your overall satisfaction with where you live and the value of you home and property.
13. You Matter More: We talk a lot about exerting influence with your purchasing choices, or “voting with your wallet.” It’s a fact that business respond to their customers, but your values and desires are much more influential to your local community business than the large national chains. Foyer Enviro Services, Inc. (262) 965-9604 DNR License #10522
38001 Sunset Drive
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
info@foyerenviro.com