Shop Local
Celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their communities. Please join EDmarket and organizations across the country in supporting your local small business by shopping at a small business.
Top Reasons to Buy Local
BUILD COMMUNITY
The casual encounters you enjoy at neighborhood-scale businesses and the public spaces around them build relationships and community cohesiveness. They're the ultimate social networking sites!
STRENGTHEN YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY
Each dollar you spend at independent businesses returns 3 times more money to your local economy than one spent at a chain (hundreds of times more than buying from an online mega-retailer)—a benefit we all can bank on.
ENHANCE CHOICES
A wide variety of independent businesses, each serving their customers' tastes, creates greater overall choice for all of us.
CREATE JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Not only do independent businesses employ more people directly per dollar of revenue, they also are the customers of local printers, accountants, wholesalers, farms, attorneys, etc., expanding opportunities for local entrepreneurs.
GIVE BACK TO YOUR COMMUNITY
Small businesses donate more than twice as much per sales dollar to local non-profits, events, and teams compared to big businesses.
