Success only runs one direction....
Independent retailers, you have a champion in Canada. Ironically, it’s someone from the ecommerce world who understands the importance of supporting local brick and mortars.
In a nutshell, the Retail Challenge (as she calls it) asks consumers to think long and hard about what will happen to their local economies if they don’t keep their hard earned dollars invested there. Here’s the grand plan: [click here to continue…]
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An article I read on a U.K. newspaper site yesterday reinforced something that’s been bugging the heck out of me the past several months. Recognizing the importance of protecting local cash flow, city leaders in Grantham decided to take up the banner of independent retailers-—the very people responsible for maintaining those coffers.
Helping launch “Get it in Grantham”-—the first of three buy local programs, to be followed in nearby Bourne and Stamford-—Paul Carpenter (Deputy Leader, South Kesteven District Council) explains, “The whole point is to ensure we keep a buoyant local economy.”
Which is exactly my point. [click here to continue…]
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