Shop Local / Earn Local / Hire Local / Manufacture Local
We support the shop local ecosystem, and an ingredient in that is local jobs. Marc Levinson in The Wall St. Journal reviews two books that address made-in-the-U.S.A. ventures.
Spoiler alert: Doing the right thing often costs more. These all likely cost more: Shopping local, using local labor, and running local manufacturing. If you’re involved in one of these area, we hope you’ll appreciate those in the others. I’ve met local shop owners that outsource their website operations to India or Portugal. I hope they see how hiring local and shopping local can support each other. Money paid to a programmer in Atlanta is more likely to trickle back to an Atlanta gift shop that hired them.