As for whether buying local is better for the local economy, it depends how many members of the local economy currently sell their output outside the 100-mile radius. If people in other countries ...

Buy local seems rational in principle, but in reality it is grossly unrealistic. Over 90 per cent of consumer goods on grocery shelves, hardware, appliances, electronics, etc, are imported.

The 2010 Christmas shopping season may be coming to a close, but you still have three days to do your part for the local economy. ...

In a recent Nielsen study of some 2,000 consumers who frequently shop their independently owned local grocery, shoppers reported that they do so because they find better quality locally grown and ...

Boivin has launched a fundraising campaign to “Help Keep The Bookloft Aloft,” he stresses that a key way to help the Bookloft — or any local business — is simply to come in and shop. Let this be a ...

The signs also showed how buying local means tax dollars that stay local help support public safety, including fire and police. That is one way to get people to shop, as if some of us need any ...

For months, Dr. T. Glen Moody has been using the "Be Loyal Buy Local" slogan to promote his bookstore, I Love Books, located on the upper level (near JCPenney) of the Kingsport Town Center ...

The Buy America Act requires federal agencies ... are made right here in Connecticut and you get the point. Shop local is a slogan that takes on new meaning.