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Why Buy Local?

Reason #1: The Economic Multiplier

Locally owned businesses tend to do business with other locally owned businesses and aren’t constrained to buy only from a national distributor. They bank with local banks, advertise in local newspapers and purchase local services such as accounting and printing. Each time a dollar is re-spent in the local economy, it’s like new income – creating a “multiplier effect” - rather than this money “leaking out” through remote corporate headquarters and centralized purchasing departments.

In the News

Buying locally boosts the economy

Mail Tribune Guest Opinion
Published: November 22, 2009 in the Mail Tribune
By Wendy Siporen

Across the country, communities and businesses are banding together to take back control of their local economy by taking advantage of the "local premium" — the tremendous benefit locally owned, independent businesses bring to their community.  Read more...

 

Local Voices

Tom Hammond
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"When you buy local, you are making a choice to keep your dollars here in the Rogue Valley where they will be reinvested in other local businesses. You are helping to create new jobs or simply maintain the jobs of your friends and neighbors."
Tom Hammond- Owner of Southern Oregon Brewing Company and Anesthesiologist at Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford
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