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What is "Shop Local" Anyway?

What "shop local" means and how it can actually benefit your community.

Amy Melinder is the president and CEO of the Woodridge Area Chamber of Commerce. 

What is “Shop Local” anyway? 

Just about everywhere you go, you see a campaign to “Shop Local.”  But what does it mean?  How does it really benefit your community?  How does it benefit you?  It is so much more than just taking pride in your community. 

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Shop Local Shop Woodridge is a grassroots community-wide initiative to help support the businesses in our community.  Its goal is to raise awareness and to educate consumers of the importance of shopping and buying at Woodridge businesses. A portion of money spent at local stores stays in the local economy which helps to retain our vibrant community.

Why Shop Local?

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Keep your sales tax dollars in the local economy: Every time you make a purchase at a Woodridge business, you are helping to provide funding for necessary Village services like public safety, street sweeping and infrastructure improvements.

Create and maintain local jobs: Patronizing local stores helps to keep the doors of local businesses open and employees on the payroll.

Help save the environment: Why drive to nearby communities when chances are we have everything you need right here in Woodridge?  Shopping at Woodridge stores helps to reduce automobile usage and associated pollution.

Save time and money: Why spend time you don’t have driving all over to find what you need?  By shopping in Woodridge, you will save time as well as gas money (especially with gas prices as high as they are right now).

To find out more about shopping locally, visit www.ShopWoodridge.net.

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