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Testimonials
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Why Should You Buy Nebraska Products?
The most obvious reason to purchase products made in Nebraska is to
support the statewide economy. That support, however, goes beyond the
livelihood of the individual business owner.
- Significantly more money re-circulates in a community
when purchases are made at locally owned, rather than nationally owned,
businesses.
- Non-profits receive greater support: Non-profit
organizations receive, on average, three times greater support from
smaller, locally-owned business owners than they do from large businesses.
- These one-of-a-kind businesses help define our
distinctive character.
- Reduced environmental impact: Locally owned
businesses can make more local purchases requiring less transportation
and generally set up shop in town or city centers as opposed to developing
on the fringe. This generally means contributing less to sprawl,
congestion, habitat loss and pollution.
- Customer service is better: Local businesses often
hire people with more specific product expertise for better customer
service.
- Local business owners invest in community: Local
businesses are owned by people who live in this community, are less
likely to leave, and are more invested in the community's future.
- Public benefits far outweigh public costs: Local
businesses in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure
investment and make more efficient use of public services as compared
to nationally owned stores entering the community.
- Competition and diversity leads to more choices:
A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best
way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term. A multitude
of small businesses, each selecting products based not on a national
sales plan but on their own interests and
the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader, more
appropriate range of product choices.
- Encourages local investment: A growing body of
economic research shows that in an increasingly homogenized world,
entrepreneurs and skilled workers are more likely to invest and settle
in communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive
character.
- Local businesses are less likely to require/demand
expensive public tax incentives and subsidies to locate here. Their
owners often are established in the community and have greater ties
than the size of their profit margin.
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