When you buy from a local small business, we spend most of our money locally and hire locally keeping the dollars and jobs in the community

I am totally on this page and trying to support local mom and pop businesses, even when it costs a little more.

My locally owned green grocer donated veggie dishes to a recent event we held to support a cultural treasure in our community.

And every summer, another locally owned store holds a big fundraiser for our cultural treasures.

I am so grateful to the small business owners in my community. They hold us together. They make us all a family.

Thanks for posting this.

By the way, I am in Los Angeles, do I am not posting this in a small town somewhere that really has to rely on small, small businesses.

Boy, is our local green grocer's a popular spot.

that's why I consider the likes of Walmart, K-Mart, Target and their ilk to be destructive to local communities.

While they may employ a number of people and that payroll goes back into the local economy, any and all profit goes back to the shareholders thousands of miles away. Oftentimes these mega-stores demand tax rebates as a condition for opening or expanding their operations.

They are vultures....

One store, in Rogers, Arkansas, that called itself "Wal-Mart Discount City". It opened in 1962 and was essentially competing with the 5-and-dime stores downtown, a few blocks away. It was content to let the neighboring IGA store handle food sales.

and I think I need to follow her. She is only buying from small business owners from here on out. I'm ashamed that I am not doing the same - I try in my own way, but this girl is committed. Thanks for the reminder.

Kids like your daughter give me hope for the future.

I have printed this and will have it in the front window of my store tomorrow morning.

More M&P and less S&P please. For the climate, the trees & the fuzzy things.

to family and friends that this is just one of the problems with a Walmart coming to town. Most of them just shrug their shoulders and say that they will shop wherever they can save money. I guess that is all that matters to them.

-P

And it's very frustrating because those same people are the one's complaining about CEO pay and Corporate collusion with our government!! Had to tell them they can't have it both ways. They still shop at Walmart.

is about 10-15% depending on the item. So on a $50 purchase, for an extra measly $6, I help keep grandkids in dance lessons. The only things I but at Lowe's are the things that my local doesn't carry.

Think, people

The term "Mom & Pop Business" needs to be separated and used exclusive of "Small Business".

because some small businesses are not "small" in the Mom & Pop sense.

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All our shopping is at local mom-and-pops. Groceries are harder; our mom-and-pop grocery, which we love and is actually cheaper than our supermarket, just doesn't carry most of what we need. My newest challenge on this front is music; I still buy cds (I listen to a lot of jazz, and like having liner notes for muscian line-ups and recording dates), but our only local cd store (edit: that carries jazz) just closed up shop.

...the world would be peachy keen.

Mom and Pop's that paid crap wages, offered little or nothing in the way of benefits, ran their little fiefdom like an autocratic empire, no chance for advancement...

DU'ers sometimes have an Ozzie and Harriet view of things.

Not every 'Mom and Pop' is a place worth working at.


I worked at a Unionized grocery chain that expanded into my town and paid DOUBLE the wages of the local 'Mom and Pop'. Almost every employee left that dump as soon as we opened and hired them away, which we then soon ran out of business.

When they were the only grocer in town, they had high prices, lousy selection, and perishable food items long past their shelf life for sale.

Seems you can't win either way nowadays.

Their lack of adequate choices due to a limited amount of products carried, produce that is average at best, meat the same, bakery that is a sad joke...they couldn't compete.

The chain I used to work for got the prices they charged due to huge selection, highest quality in every perishable item sold, and customer service.

Anyone can sell potato chips and stuff called food that comes in a box, hell, gas stations sell it.

then my hat is off to your employer, for sure. Good show! Who was this company, anyway? Costco?