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FERA - Gift of Choice Program
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Gift of Choice cheques are just that: the perfect alternative to buying a gift! They are as good as cash and as safe as a Traveler’s Cheque and better than both! Gift of Choice cheques are prepaid bank cheques, issued and validated by Scotiabank and are legal tender. You can purchase them in $10 or $25 denominations and spend them at participating businesses throughout Centre Wellington.
Your Community is unlike any other place in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain local diversity and distinctive culture. Where to purchase Gift of Choice Cheques:
Participating Merchants:View Merchants by Category(a printed copy of merchants is available by e-mailing the Chamber office)
Top 10 Reasons to Shop Local!Shopping locally is one of the best ways to build a stronger, more prosperous community. There are many reasons to support local, independent businesses in Your Community, including: 1. Protect Local Character and ProsperityYour Community is unlike any other place in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain local diversity and distinctive culture. 2. Community Well-BeingLocally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes. 3. Local Decision MakingLocal ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions. 4. Keeping Dollars in the Local EconomyYour dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development. 5. Job and WagesLocally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do. 6. EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship fuels economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class. 7. Public Benefits and CostsLocal stores in town centres require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls. 8. Environmental SustainabilityLocal stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centres-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution. 9. CompetitionA marketplace of hundreds or thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term. 10. Product DiversityA multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices. |
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