Sarah

-Sarah's page Problem:People are shopping to much at chain stores instead of local businesses, causing less economic activity( the money going around in the city). Focus question: How can we get more people to shop locally instead of chain stores Ways to help your community Adults, ever feel like you shop too much for things you don't need .Money going to waste to stores that you have no idea what they use on or for.Well here in America, people are going to chain stores, instead of shopping in the local community.The problem with this is that it's causing less economic activity.Economic activity by the way,means the money going around in the city. Well to help this economic activity go up, I believe you should shift ten percent of your chain store spendings into local businesses.



Shifting ten percent of your chain store spendings to local businesses seems like so little, but can help so much.You see, if you shift ten percent of the money you spend to a business that doesn't has more than one location, not only helps your wallet, it helps your community.The re ason for this is because local business tend to by things from another local business.So that means at a local business 32% of their spendings stay in the local economy .While at Target, only 16% stays yikes .This will work because research shows that if you shift ten percent of your spendings to your local business, it would generate about 253 million dollars a year in local economic activity . The way this will work is lets say there is Vons and a local farmers market .Instead of going to the Vons just go the the local farmers marketbecause it will be cheaper and taste better and fresher. Instead of this money going to who knows where at a chain store, your money will be going to other local stores.    Just shift ten percent of you chain stores spendings to local businesses is all.You see if we do this it can put more local stores back in our community.Our towns need local stores because they make our community or towns unique.But if we just have a Wal-Mart and Target in every single town they' ll all look the same and start to get boring.With local stores you actually had time to talk with the people in the community whereas in a chain store you are just met to shop and leave.This will work because research shows that a community with more owned businesses is more livelier and more active .So with more chain  stores that means there is less diversity between cities.It also means that there would be less uniqueness if their are more chain stores.

 I believe we should all just try to shift ten percent of our chain store spendings to local chain stores.Just think about it, more life in a city than just Target or Wal- mart. Even though you might trust th e big stores more, it's better to buy locally.When you buy locally you save tons of fuel.You are also saving our atmosphere buy not buying something that came from half way across the world.Research shows that with every gallon of fuel burned it lets out twenty-eight pounds of carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere.So what I believe what everyone should do is shop locally.

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