Buy Local - Support the Flathead Valley
Why Buy Local?
Money Spent Here Stays Here! Local businesses return 80% of every dollar collected back to the local community. This creates a “multiplier effect” in that $1.00 paid to a locally owned business will return five times that amount within the community through employee’s wages, and purchases of products and supplies at other independent businesses.
Reasons to Think Local & Buy Local
It keeps our community unique because businesses that are owned or managed by people who live and work in our area are raising their families here and investing in our collective future. They fund our churches, schools, non-profit organizations, and help to improve our quality of life.
Locally owned businesses help to reduce environmental impacts because they make local purchases requiring less transportation and goods hit the market more rapidly.
Locally owned businesses create more local jobs; small local businesses are the largest employer nationally and in our community.
Locally owned businesses are owned by people who live here and they are less likely to leave, thus making them more invested in the community’s future. We get better service from people we know.
Locally owned businesses encourage local prosperity. Research shows that entrepreneurs and skilled workers are more likely to invest and settle in communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character.
When you buy local from farmers and ranchers you are getting the produce at its peak form. How long a bunch of romaine lettuce has been sitting around, has a direct impact on just how good that romaine really is for you. That’s because food starts to change as soon as it’s plucked from the earth and tender vitamins such as C, E, A and thiamine begin to deteriorate.
A thriving local economy helps to sustain and create more local jobs, creates more opportunities for entrepreneurs and business expansion and builds community economic strength for all concerned.
