Newsletter

Bookmark/Search this post with:
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Propeller
  • Reddit
  • Magnoliacom
  • Newsvine
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Technorati
  • Icerocket
AttachmentSize
September 2010 online.pdf1.06 MB
Shopping Local Independent Businesses
Books Inc. and other independent booksellers around the Bay and around the US are partnering with customers like YOU, who are a unique, imaginative, thoughtful, civic-minded individuals and want to support your community by joining IndieBound.org, whose mission it is to help people across the United States and share independently-owned businesses. Go to www.indiebound.org for more info now.

Here’s some of what you do when you shop local.

• Spend $100 at a local and $68 of that stays in your community. Spend the same $100 at a national chain, and your community only sees $43.

• Buying local means less packaging, less transportation, and a smaller carbon footprint.

• Shopping in a local business district means less infrastructure, less maintenance, and more money to beautify your community.

• Local retailers are your friends and neighbors—support them and they’ll support you.

• Local businesses donate to local schools and charities at more than twice the rate of national chains.

• More independents means more choice, more diversity, and a truly unique community.

It’s so seductive to save 10%, but not paying sales tax at some online retailers is undercutting the local businesses that keep your community vibrant and unique. Get the facts about E-Fairness.  Go to http://www.bookweb.org/advocacy/salestax for more info.