Phoenix, AZ Buy Local Week
November 28, 2008
December 8th to 14th is Buy Local Week, but why not start now!
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Where to buy local: See a directory of Local First Members.
December 8th to the 14th, 2008 has been declared Buy Local Week by Local First Arizona and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. This is a call for us to emphasis local businesses. This does not mean a local big box store but independent stores.
The goal is the grow our community here in diversity and wealth: by buying at local stores and using local service providers, more of that money stays here: more jobs: more diverse neighborhoods: and a better quality of life.
Though there is "Buy Local Week" we should buy local as much as we can. It's easy to jump online to buy something and have it shipped or go to a big box store and get lost but it's so much better to visit a local store and often talk with the owner and see the impact on the neighborhood or a good coffee shop or a row of businesses that restored a dilapidated old building, or the superb food.
