I was out shooting a couple of Sundays ago and saw this sign in front of a garden/antique store.This sign is so true. You need to support your local merchants and help keep your dollars in the community. These are the people who make up the fabric of your community. Without them your town will become just like so many other places. Bland and dull with the same stores as every other town and nothing to distinguish it from other places. It may be a local garden shop, antique store, office supply store, artist or farmer that need your support. Do you pay a little more, yes you do. However if you are buying local you are supporting a local family who ends up paying your neighbors and that helps keep your community strong. It should not always be about buying cheap. You may buy cheap but when you buy cheap you end up buying more because the quality is not there. Local merchants care about the community and their reputation and they will work to get and keep their good name. If they do not they will not last.
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Local merchants will dicker over prices, too. Shopping becomes fun again and is as much an experience as it is a necessity. I never had Sam Walton give me a free water melon just because I walked into his store, but our local veggie market owner does so to show his appreciation.
So true Mark. I have practiced this for years. There is a better overall feeling about the entire transaction when you know the shop owner by name. I feel like just a number when I walk into one of these giant rubber stamp stores. So many times I've had folks in the grocery store tell me that they wouldn't go the farmer's market because it was "too expensive" while they buy their produce from South America or some other country while honestly, I think they are just too lazy to make the effort.
Still cold by us in the 30's at night. my seeds are growing out of their pots and I still can't get them in the ground. Started Poblano peppers on Tuesday evening and thought of you as I was poking them into the dirt with a toothpick.
Odd weather all around. Looks like 50's and maybe 60's on Sunday.
People are too lazy to go to the farmers market. Plus why do they want to deal with "dirty hippies".
You know they think that.
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