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Giving thanks to local business owners
This Thanksgiving, let’s celebrate our communities and our neighbors. In that spirit, let’s give thanks to our local business owners, who are responsible for encouraging economic activity, banishing blight from neighborhoods, sending tax dollars to our local schools and law enforcement, and keeping our communities strong. Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, black friday, buy local month, deals, giving thanks, local businesses, Thanksgiving
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Celebrate Buy Local Month this Holiday Season: Holiday Shift Tips
This holiday season, celebrate Buy Local Month with Local First Arizona: Support your community by shifting your spending from national chains and online shops to locally owned businesses in your community. Continue reading
Posted in Local First Movement
Tagged Arizona, black friday, buy local month, gift ideas, holiday deals, holiday shift guide, Holiday shopping, local, shop, store
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Buy Local Week 2011 (Tucson)
TweetIt’s that time of year again! A common sight on Black Friday is hordes of people lined up in front of chain stores with wallets open wide, looking for terrific deals. Put on your “local economist” glasses and you may … Continue reading
Buy Local Week (Phoenix)
TweetIt’s that time of year again! A common sight on Black Friday is hordes of people lined up in front of chain stores with wallets open wide, looking for terrific deals. Put on your “local economist” glasses and you may … Continue reading
Posted in 10% Shift, Buy Local Week, Events, Greater Phoenix, Local First Movement, Shift Arizona
Tagged black friday, Buy Local Week, Greater Phoenix
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Buy Local Week: Phoenix
TweetBlack Friday: when regular folks become cattle, trampling each other for the newest, best marketed, glowing object at their nearest warehouse of cheap-goods-made-elsewhere. We at Local First Arizona ask: is it worth it? Let me suggest an alternative: unique gifts … Continue reading
Posted in Arizona, Businesses, Buy Local Week, Economics, Greater Phoenix, Shift Arizona
Tagged black friday, Buy Local Week, local
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Buy Local Week: Tucson
TweetBlack Friday: when regular folks become cattle, trampling each other for the newest, best marketed, glowing object at their nearest warehouse of cheap-goods-made-elsewhere. We at Local First Arizona ask: is it worth it? Let me suggest an alternative: unique gifts … Continue reading
Posted in Arizona, Businesses, Buy Local Week, Economics, Local First Movement, Shift Arizona, Tucson & Southern Arizona
Tagged black friday, Buy Local Week, local
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