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Beginning October 15th the Cannon Courier is kicking off a promotion designed to encourage Cannon Countians to shop locally.
With the holiday season approaching, we believe this is the perfect time to make everyone aware of the benefits of shopping at home.
In a small town, the local merchants are the ones you call on to help sponsor ball teams, school festivals, donate to booster clubs and help with church, community, civic and charitable causes. And they rise to the occasion again, and again, and again. But when you need to shop, do you think first about patronizing those same merchants before going elsewhere? Sadly, many times that is not what happens.
Perhaps you work out-of-town and shop before coming home. You may drive past one or more Cannon County business that sells most, if not everything you purchased ... but you did not think about the real ramifications of your decision.
Local businesses have bills to pay like everyone else. They have employees, electricity, water, phone, Internet, insurance, property taxes ... and the list goes on and on. If you do not support them they become limited in what they can give back to the community.
Next time you ask them to sponsor your child's ball team, or donate an auction item to your school festival or cancer victim benefit or buy an ad in the school's yearbook, they can't because funds simply aren't available.
And when that happens, are you going to be mad at that business for not donating, even though you never stopped in their store to buy anything? That's really not fair is it?
Did you drive by and go out-of-town to make your purchases? Then maybe next time you need to ask that big box store for a donation to your event, team or charity... and see how successful your effort is.
By shopping locally the end result is more sales tax dollars for Cannon County. We put a pencil to our idea and came up with some very interesting facts and figures: there are 6,161 households in Cannon County. If each household would commit to spending just $100 per month here in Cannon County they are currently spending elsewhere, the additional sales tax revenue would be $10,781.75 per month. And if you really want to see the difference this could make ... in a year's time the county would have $129,381 more to spend on Cannon Countians ... on schools, roads and other improvements and services.
As we kick off this campaign we challenge each of you to think about this and make a more conscious effort to buy from local shops, restaurants and convenience stores. If you need hardware items, building supplies, furniture, antiques, jewelry, clothes, candles, honey, home décor, tools and so much more the list is endless ... PLEASE visit your local businesses first. They will be glad to see you and will appreciate your business. And if you don't see the item you are looking for, just ask them and they can probably get it for you.
Check out the ad on page B10 of todays paper. The Cannon Courier is printing these posters and urging all Cannon County businesses to stop by our office at 113 West Main and get one to hang in your front window. We want the signs everywhere to serve as a constant reminder to "GROW OUR COMMUNITY...SHOP CANNON COUNTY FIRST!!!
