Buy Local Campaign Chairman to be Guest Speaker at PABA meeting
The "Buy Local" campaign is sponsored by the Port Angeles Forward Committee. Mike Edwards, the campaign chairman, spoke last February at the Port Angeles Business Association's weekly meeting. At this Tuesday's meeting he'll be giving an update on the development of a website and other marketing strategies.
Labels: Mike Edwards, Port Angeles Business Association, Port Angeles Buy Local, Port Angeles Forward
posted by Tom Harper at 12:57 PM
11 Comments:
Is Sequim considered local? I'm going over there tomorrow to buy something.
That really is a very good website for this program. I buy local!
http://www.chooselocalpa.org/
RCP, I'll spend my money where I want too. But I'll spend all the money here that you are willing to give me to spend here. Meanwhile, I'm spending a 160 bucks in Sequim tomorrow. :-)
Does it really matter where we buy our Chinese made stuff at?
I'm glad they're asking you to consider buying local instead of trying to guilt trip you into buying local.
I tell you though, I got burned out on local businesses during the '90s. I'm a pretty mellow customer, but I've been yelled at, ignored (repeatedly), overcharged... and one brilliant business even called the police on a group of us. Long story short we didn't get the item we wanted and the owner was afraid we'd riot or something. Nothing like having a policeman screaming in your face to leave a business when you're just standing there wondering if you should buy something else. So I left. Hey, if they insist.
Here's the thing... There are business here I won't go in even after 15 years. Once you get out of the habit of something, and find there are alternatives, it's hard to get back into this "buy local" thing. Plus going back to that business makes my skin crawl, though I have a few times and it wasn't awful.
Also, going elsewhere for Product X means I might just pick up Product Y while I'm at it. Bad businesses affect their neighbors as well, just as good businesses do.
It's a shame. I think things have gotten much better in Port Angeles lately. Still some rough edges but nowhere near the horrorshow it used to be. But I'm out of the habit of buying local, there isn't a lot locally I want and I'm frankly not buying as much as I used to. Bad consumer, right?
BBC, if you were not always looking for a fight you wouldn't have to carry a gun.
As far as I am concerned Sequim is local, because people from here work there and vice versa. The guy across the street works in Port Townsend. I come from a metro area where even that would be called local.
As for Chinese made stuff...I don't buy much of that.
P.A.nerd, that is an unfortunate story you went through. But, you could experience that anywhere I think. I have not seen that here so far. Swain's for example is full of friendly and helpful people who know where everything is and will walk you right to it.
{YAWN} no news, obviously. I'll buy local, if I can find it.
I can't afford to buy local or not local, and with the newest utility rates rising, I won't be able to do much more than pay my taxes, my utilities, and eat grubs from the yard. Is that shopping local?
"eat grubs from the yard"
Ooops, you will have to buy a State license to harvest grubs, and a Federal Grub Stamp...:)
The other day I was having a latte with my friend, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, (he's not as enlightened as I am, but I like him anyway) and I said to him "D.L.," (he's cool with me calling him "D.L.", by the way) "I'm all for this this 'Buy Local' thing." D.L. nodded (He's cool like that. He reminds me of my other good friend, Miles Davis, only D.L. doesn't play the trumpet).
So there you have it, folks. Two enlightened minds who think buying local is a good thing. Buy local, I do and so do my good friends!
What happened to the downtown sale weekend swap meet at the Landing? Could not find it Sunday.
"(he's cool with me calling him "D.L.", by the way)"
Clearly you do not know His Holiness. He prefers to be called DJ-D.L. I met him in the V.I.P. room at Armin's club in Ibiza and we hit it off. He was really rocking the club that night by the way. Who knew a Dalai Lama could spin techno like that?
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