It has a great many advantages. When you enter a store you know the people who work there by name and they know you. The folks who own it work it. That has a dark side as well but we won't go there.
I do support the buy local initiatives. Small business is the backbone or our nation and its' economy. However, today I hit one of the problems with a small town. It is Wednesday.
Wednesday is not the problem. The Wednesday tradition is the problem. Years ago businesses closed at noon on Wednesday, the bank, city offices almost everything. "That's the way it was," so Walter Cronkite would say. Today, Wednesday at 1pm I went to get my gas grill tank refilled to cook Sunday for my Dad (fried fish, hush puppies etc.) so I stopped at a local LP gas retailer and ran "smack dab" into tradition. The door was locked! After rubbing my nose (not really) I saw the hours of operation "Wednesday 8-12." Being the consumer I am i went to the other LP gas retailer in this town and this time did not run into tradition. I just went up to the door and there tradition was posted in the window.
Now I will go to the next community to get the tank refilled. It seems whenever I try to buy local I have to go to the next town to do it.
Is that local or long distance?
You tell me!
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