Why Buy Local Morgan Hill?
How else can I support small business?
Additional benefits of shopping locally:
1.It helps the environment. Buying local reduces your carbon footprint. Having a diverse range of businesses within walking or biking distance reduces the amount of driving you need to do, lessens traffic and air pollution and helps to conserve land.
2. Buying local keeps and creates local jobs. Local businesses prefer to hire local. They create jobs in the community for people of all ages. Many of our Buy Local businesses are owned by locals, too! The Buy Local Morgan Hill campaign is helping over 500 Morgan Hill businesses raise awareness of the importance of buying local.
3. It helps to keep us unique. Morgan Hill has a vibrant high energy culture. When you buy local you support our uniqueness.
4. It nurtures our community. Our local businesses are committed to investing in Morgan Hill, donating to charitable causes, actively getting involved in the community and helping to support our schools, local events and festivals.
5. It creates more choice. Local businesses respond to their customers and have freedom to choose the items they sell. They often carry a wider array of unique products that are locally-made or produced. If you don’t see what you want or need, ask!
6. It spurs entrepreneurs, the lifeblood of California’s economy.
7. It’s fun! Explore Morgan Hill. Discover what our local businesses have to offer. Meet your neighbors. Purchase something “Authentically Morgan Hill!”