Why should you buy local? This article has lots of good reasons. I found this one especially telling: Brick-and-mortar retailers employ 47 people for every $10 million in sales, according to an analysis by ILSR of U.S. Census data. Independent retailers employ even more people and create 52 jobs for every $10 million. However, Amazon employs only 14 people per $10 million in revenue. That means that as Amazon grew and took market share from other retailers, the number of U.S. jobs declined. In 2012, Amazon expanded its share of retail spending in North America by $8 billion, producing a net loss of about 27,000 jobs, according to the Institute of Local Self-Reliance. Thank you for supporting Green Bambino, a locally-owned, independent business in Oklahoma City! salon/2014/07/12/amazons_loathsome_tax_scheme_how_behemoths_defeat_main_street_and_how_we_can_stop_them/
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 02:53:27 +0000