When you shop at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits:
1. A Significant amount of money re-circulates in Denver when purchases are made at locally owned businesses versus nationally owned businesses.
- Locally owned and operated retailers keep profits in the local economy and support other local business.
- For every $100 dollars spent at a local business, as much as $73 stays in the local economy, compared to $43 when the same amount is spent at a chain store. (”Andersonville Study of Retail Economics;” CivicEconomics, October 2004)
2. Local businesses are owned by people who live in your community and they are invested in your community’s future.
- They hire local accountants, architects, designers, sign makers and so forth to help run their business.
3. Small businesses select products based not on a national sales plan but on their own interests and needs of their customers.
4. We remember your name.
5. Non-profits receive greater support.
- Non-profit organizations receive an average 250% greater support from local business owners than from non-local
6. Buying local means less packaging, less transportation, and a smaller carbon footprint.
7. We love you and want to support what you do as well.