29/11/2017
Supporting local, small businesses uplifts your entire community by:
-helping your community gain economic advantage by having a one-of-a-kind distinctive character
-linking neighbours in a web of economic and social relationships
- compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy
-create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do
- local ownership ensures important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions
- entrepreneurship fuels Canada’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
- 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
- local stores help sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers which are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution
- healthy small businesses help your community guarantee a much broader range of product choices