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Survey: Where do you shop? Do you shop big stores or small locals?

12/7/2021

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We're interested in thoughts about this.

Is it laziness?
Convenience?
Are television ads just that appealing or are they mind control.

Is it simple ease of unmetered parking and not liking to cross roads?

The downtown has changed over the years, but is it making a comeback?

​We're interested in what people think and if there are outside the box suggestions to help the idea of shopping local and supporting neighbors in business.

​Comment below.
Shop local is just about every town's rally cry, but how many people truly do?

Corporate big box stores have crowded parking lots. Sometimes folks park on the other side of the lot and walk and think nothing of walking hundreds of yards into the store that they then walk endlessly around in. Yet people seem reluctant to park and walk a few blocks to shop in a stored owned by a neighbor.
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Frequent Reader
12/7/2021 04:35:47 pm

I like to shop the little stores as mush as possible, but admittedly I have found myself doing more shopping online then ever before. One of the struggles is knowing what small business has the item(s) you are looking for. And if you have no idea what gift to get someone, it is even harder to know what small shop might have a good idea. So shopping small is sometimes a greater time commitment. But it does come with the reward of knowing you are helping your neighbors and your town.

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Melissa Dicks
12/7/2021 08:16:55 pm

For weekly grocery shopping I go to Target and Aldi. For deli and the things I need throughout the week I run to my local mom & pop supermarket. My little town has a lot of small businesses that I try to shop at rather than the big box stores. If I know they have an item and the price is not ridiculously high I will buy it from them. All of our appliances are from a local business.
I do shop Amazon probably too often out of convenience. I have been trying to find more small businesses online. I NEVER shop Walmart. (Another rant for another day)

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