Big, little guys get a chance if we balance our buying
Cinda Baxter has gotten tons of support since the veteran consultant and onetime retailer launched a March offensive in support of locally owned merchants.
Baxter and her cohorts at the 3/50 Project urge us at www.the350project.org to pick three independent retailers and spend $50 apiece on them for starters. Times are tough.
Consumer spending amounts to about 70 percent of our economic output.
Cinda Baxter has gotten tons of support since the veteran consultant and onetime retailer launched a March offensive in support of locally owned merchants.
Baxter and her cohorts at the 3/50 Project urge us at www.the350project.org to pick three independent retailers and spend $50 apiece on them for starters. Times are tough.
Consumer spending amounts to about 70 percent of our economic output. If you spend a buck on local ducks, 70 cents stays in town, compared with 43 cents at a big-box, chain-store giant, according to Baxter.
I’ll hit Welna Hardware or Fat Lorenzo’s any day for a hammer or a pizza before heading to chain-owned Home Depot or Olive Garden.