Why shop local?

A glimpse into the economic impact:

• Small
  businesses
  provide
  55%
  of all U.S. Jobs.¹
• The 28 million
  small businesses
  in america
  account for
  54%
  of all U.S. sales.²
• The number of
  small businesses
  in the U.S. has
  increased by
  49%
  since 1982.³
• Shifting
  10%
  of our annual
  spending to local
  businesses creates jobs and develops new
  economic support.

1-3 U.S. Small Business Administration: www.sba.gov/content/small-business-trends-impact 4 Institute for Local Self-Reliance: "Key Studies: Why Local Matters". Last updated Jan. 2016. (Cites Study "Going Local: Quantifying the Economic Impacts of Buying from Locally Owned Businesses in Portland, Main." Garret Martin and Amar Patel, Maine center for economic policy, Dec. 2011.): ilsr.org/key-studies-why-local-matters