Top 10 Reasons to Shop Local

We all know how fun it is to shop locally in Historic Downtown Excelsior Springs, but there’s more to it…

1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity
   Excelsior Springs is unlike any other city in the world.  By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain Excelsior Springs’ diversity and distinctive flavor.
2. Community Well-Being
   Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors and by contributing more to local causes.
3. Local Decision Making
   Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
   Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains.  When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.
5. Jobs & Wages
   Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship
   Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.
7. Public Benefits and Costs
   Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
8. Environmental Sustainability
   Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers, which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss and air and water pollution.
9. Competition
   A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
10. Product Diversity
    A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the need of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.

Get out and Shop Local in Historic Downtown Excelsior Springs!!!