Somethinglocal: A place to browse and discover locally owned shops and stores.

When you spend $1 at a local independent business, an average of 68 cents is re-circulated into the local economy. In contrast, when you spend $1 at a national chain, only about 43 cents stays at home.

- Andersonville Study of Retail Economics, by Civic Economics, October 2004 and MN Dept. of Revenue, Gross Retail 2003.

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Purchasing from locally owned stores creates about 70% more local jobs, and 67% more overall local income, per dollar spent. With as little as 10% of purchases being made at local businesses, consumers would add nearly 1,300 new jobs and $200 million to the local economy.

-the San Francisco Retail Diversity Study