Supporting Local Business Not a Choice. It’s Necessity!

Jerry Schaffer
3 min readMay 10, 2020

Support local businesses. You might have seen the hashtag trending. Why does it matter to support local businesses. Though it may not sound important to you, don’t take it for granted.

If you aren’t actively supporting your local businesses, think again. You might not get affected today, but that’s surely going to impact your life and livelihood in the long run. You decide whether it’s going to be good or bad.

Local businesses are the backbone of local economy and community. It’s a time like no other. In desperate times, we need to act wisely. We have to survive the challenge ahead of us. Supporting your local business is one of the ways we can continue to fight and stay afloat.

Supporting your local businesses is in the best interest of the local economy and community. You are helping local economy. When the economy is in good shape, the community prospers too. Each member of the community is connected with other.

Local businesses help sustain many families, and also contribute to employment, taxes and local revenues that finance community facilities.

Think of it in other terms of sustaining your workforce and also customers. Yes, that’s right. Local businesses and their employees are also consumers and customers for other local businesses and service providers.

Buying local and availing local services is the way to go in the current turmoil. Instead of large corporate setups, try to buy from local stores. Hire local services instead of large companies. When you buy from large corporates, you are giving away a part of the local economy. The local money gets routed to some other place and helps others become wealthy. In contrast, when you buy local, the money stays locally and helps in sustaining the local economy.

Given that any economy is like a cycle, the money that you spend with any local business will eventually come to you. How? Let’s say you are a real estate agent. When you help local businesses, the money will help people to continue spending. Some of the money will eventually be used to buy a house, which means money back into your pocket.

Busy Bees Locks & Keys — San Diego is a local locksmith company in San Diego County. We are a family owned and operated locksmith company with shops in San Diego, Chula Vista, Santee and Escondido.

BUSY BEES LOCKS & KEYS INC.

Address: 1747 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: 619–733–0172
Website: https://www.busybeeslocksmith.com/
Google Map: https://g.page/BusyBeesLocksmith

During the ongoing coronavirus crisis, we continue to stay open and provide locksmith services to our customers and the local community. With reduced work and increased work risk, it is not easy going. We face difficulties and more challenges in providing the service our customers deserve.

As a local employer, we have the responsibility of our team and employees. Our business does not only employ individuals, it supports several families too. We need to keep our business strong and revenues coming. That’s exactly where we need you to pitch in. Support local business. That way you are helping small businesses like us to stay afloat and sustain many families. This, in turn, helps the community too.

Stay strong and support local small businesses.

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Jerry Schaffer
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Lead locksmith & owner at Busy Bees Locks & Keys Inc, San Diego (California). Serving San Diego County since 2005. https://www.busybeeslocksmith.com