Newby: Local businesses must play their part
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John Newby
Anna Lappe once stated, “Every time you spend money, you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”
This has never been more accurate than in a local community. I might add, the smaller the community, the more necessary and true this statement rings. While we tend to spend our time focusing on the need to shop local, be local, and adopt a truly-local DNA, we must not neglect what that truly means from a business point of view.
This past week, a reader contacted me about how hard it is to shop local in his area because local businesses didn’t require masks, whereas the national chains for the most part did insist on wearing of masks. While I don’t want to debate the politics of wearing a mask, it did give me cause to think about the role of locally-owned businesses in the overall efforts of building a truly-local DNA within the community.