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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.
Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town
centers, linking neighbors in a web of relationships, and contributing to local causes.
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.
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.
Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in most sectors, provide better
wages and benefits than chains do.
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.
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.
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.
Competition
A marketplace of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation
and low prices over the long term.
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.
Why Support Locally Owned Businesses?
Restaurant Rally 2010
March 9, 2010
6:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
Support local business and
spend a Tuesday night on
the town.
For only $10 you get hours of
entertainment, great food,
free transportation and the
knowledge that you helped a
local business.
Each restaurant will offer
samples of signature and
popular menu items and drink
specials.
Participants may start at any
restaurant.
Free parking is available at
Cascades Manor House.
Shuttle buses are provide by
Jackson Public Schools.
Locations: Cascades Manor
House, Bella Notte
Ristorante, New County
China Buffet, Ground Round,
BBQ Shack, Culvers, Night
Light, Wildwood Cafe
Cost: $10
Website: Restaurant Rally
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