WHY SHOP LOCAL?

1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity

By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain Kent's diversity and unique community.

2. Community Well-Being

Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.

3. Local Decision Making

Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy

Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.

5. Job and Wages

Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.

6. Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

7. Public Benefits and Costs

Local businesses require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services.

8. Environmental Sustainability

Local businesses help to sustain a vibrant close community which in turn is essential to reducing automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.

9. Competition

A marketplace of local businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.

10. Better Products and Prices

Local businesses select products and prices based not on a national sales plan, but on the needs of their local customers which provides selective, affordable and helpful service.

Locally Responsible For You

and

Your Family!

Locally Owned & Managed For Your Peace Of Mind!