"Keeping Doors Open and Lights On" | Why Small Business Support Matters

I am keeping doors open; I do help keep lights on, because I know our independently owned and operated businesses are essential and critical to a thriving community. Choices are - and always have been - important to me, as I assume they are to many folks, and yet we have so many people willing to walk away from the icons of their towns and main streets, the heartbeat of the city they call home, in pursuit of online clicks and instant gratification of....doing nothing but waiting for a box to arrive. How did we get here!?

  

My spending model of shopping "where it means more", may include going to four independent stores to purchase what we need, rather than a single warehouse/chain entity (or one online order which arrives in eight different shipments/boxes). But my local stores are right around here, on the way to places I go each week. And they are here because we KEEP spending there, keep supporting them, keep their lights on and doors open....why wouldn't we want to see such places thrive and survive, remaining part of our landscape and local scene?

I'm truly at a loss to understand this new, manufactured, carefully marketed obsession with ditching the real people and forming connections with online chat bots and screens instead.

Go Independent, Shop Small (Anywhere USA) began as a love affair with locally owned businesses and the people that operate them. Join us as "Live Local USA" on our social networks and help spread the message that small business STILL matters.