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Shift Your Shopping Spreads Throughout the Granite State

November 01, 2018 7:18 AM | TLC Monadnock (Administrator)

On November 1, the eighth annual Shift Your Shopping holiday campaign launched for the 2018 season, encouraging individuals and businesses to "shift" more of their holiday shopping, entertaining and dining to locally owned and independent businesses. Twenty-seven businesses, organizations and networks in towns and cities throughout New Hampshire will kick off this collaborative campaign this week. The campaign continues through December.

Shift Your Shopping's mission is to "build a tradition that strengthens local economies, expands local employment, nurtures a sense of community, and provides a more relaxed, fun, and rewarding holiday shopping experience."

Monadnock Buy Local participated in Shift Your Shopping with partners around the nation in 2010. Now it's inviting like-minded organizations to grow the campaign in the Granite State. Partners bring their own local flair, using Shift Your Shopping templates as well as incorporating events like Plaid Friday and Cider Monday (pro-local antidotes to the chain-centered Black Friday and "Cyber Monday") into their efforts. The campaign also encourages people to employ the energy and resources of Small Business Saturday as part of their season-long outreach.

The Shift Your Shopping campaign also makes a timely economic case for buying local. Every dollar spent at a local, independent business returns 2-4 times more dollars to the community compared to a dollar spent at a non-local business.  Sustained "buy local" campaigns have demonstrated their capacity to shift sizable portions of spending from chains and online businesses to local entrepreneurs, according to the Institute for Local Self Reliance. ILSR indexes key local economy studies at ILSR.org.

Partners are businesses and organizations that understand the increased economic and community benefits that accrue when we spend dollars at locally owned, independent businesses. They also value programs and policies that build a local, green and fair economy rooted in the Granite State.

To date, partners include Monadnock Buy Local, Local First Alliance, White Mountain Independents, NH Food Alliance, Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire (NOFA-NH), Stay Work Play, The Sustainability Institute, atHOME Magazine, Portsmouthnh.com, Seacoast Eat Local, Belletetes, Inc.,Bric & Brac, Country Bridals, Cove of Treasures, Farmers' Market of Keene, Food Connects, Givey's Barber Shop, Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce, Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce, Jaffrey Civic Center, Keene First Friday Art Hop, Monadnock Arts Alive, Monadnock Food Co-op, Monadnock Sustainability Network, Monadnock Time Exchange, The Melamine Cup, and TEAM Jaffrey.

About Shift Your Shopping NH

The Shift Your Shopping NH website provides a gateway to resources from many community campaigns and includes easy-to-use graphics and activities that allow participating partners to spread the critical message easily where they live. Visit the site for information on the campaign, partnering organizations, special events, and stories from Granite State communities making the shift in 2018.  

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