Before area shoppers drive out of town or hit the send key for an online purchase, please consider the benefit of shopping locally.
For every $100 spent in local, independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expenditures. Spend the same in area national stores, $43 stays locally. However, spending that $100 on Internet purchases or out-of-town purchases means $0 stays within the community.
By shopping locally, we support local jobs!
I agree, if your budget allows it, shop locally to keep the city viable.
Shop locally if you do not want to see city taxes raised, shop locally if you do not want to see struggling business leaving town, shop locally if you want the services provided in the city.
Shop locally if you want sidewalks, streets maintained, city schools operational and so on.
If you want the city to do better, shop locally.
Makes other business look at the customer base in Tracy, too.
Good reminder, that every city needs their citizens to shop locally.
CN
Does your admonition (and unintended interpretation of the dictates of capitalistic globalism) suggest the economic integration of our lives is morally flawed? A cognitively-successful person may prefer the best shopping deal, whether in or out of town. It is his “right.” Also, his economic support is with those who think like him, which may not include some of his slovenly, indolent, benighted neighbors.
Does shopping in town support more than local jobs?
Isn’t your exhortation truly off the mark?
What are you really advocating?
Is shopping locally really the answer?
I think you know better.
That $100 spent locally is after you bought a $90 item that had $10 in taxes thrown on top. Whereas I would only have to spend $90 to buy it online and keep the $10 difference in my pocket to buy something else.
It's not that I don't like supporting Tracy business, I just don't like needlessly giving 10% extra to the government that wastes my money.