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Worcester Local First encourages retail and business-to-business customers to "Think Local First, Shift 10 Percent" when buying goods and services. Click here for a February 2010 Business Week article on the national Local First movement, titled "Consumers Buy Into 'Buy Local'."

  Click here for our Marketplace section, containing indivdualized pages for each of our 240+ Underwriter, Sponsor and Business members.  All are local, independent and based in Worcester.

Click here for corrections and updates regarding the Sponsor and Member listings in our 2009-2010 Shopping Directory

 

 

 Shop Local Pizza Pie Chart 

Click here for the Top 10 Reasons to Shop Local.

 

 

   Click here to view our Individual Friend members. These are people who support the mission of Worcester Local First and either live in Worcester or Massachusetts and do not own and operate a business, or their business is not located in Worcester and/or not local and independent.

 

 Click here to view the Google Map locations of our 240+ Underwriter, Sponsor and Business members. All are local, independent and based in Worcester.

 

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Advantages & Benefits of Local Independents
 
 Click here for information regarding the New England 10% Shift campaign, including an easy-to-use "Local Calculator."
 
 
 
 
Click here for Independent Retailers Outperform Chains Over Holidays, National Survey Finds, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and Institute for Local Self-Reliance, January 2009.
 
 
 Click here for Local Works! Examining the Impact of Local Business on the West Michigan Economy, Local First West Michigan and Civic Economics, September 2008.
 
 
 Click here for Ratings: Appliance Stores, Consumer Reports, August 2008, regarding how independent appliance stores rate against chain stores and Amazon.com.
  
 


Surviving & Thriving in a Tough Economy!
 
Click here for the "Local Calculator," an easy-to-use tool from the New England 10% Shift campaign.
 
 
Click here for Twelve Business Strategies to Survive and Thrive in a Challenging Economy, Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston, October 2008.
 
 


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Think Frugal, Buy Local

Tough times encourage local businesses to band together to capture revenue

By Livia Gershon

12/07/09

Bill Cavanagh, owner of C.C. Lowell in Worcester, was an early recruit to the Worcester Local First movement. Many “buy local” efforts are cropping up and ramping up efforts to get the word out for the holiday shopping season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Local evangelists

Buy-local effort gains momentum in Mass. amid big-box deluge

By Lisa van der Pool

Boston Business Journal Staff  Writer

12/25/09

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael Kanter, owner of Cambridge Naturals,
is a founding member of Cambridge Local First.
 
 

 

 

 

Click here for a New England News Channel interview of Lisa van der Pool regarding her article.

 

 
 
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Worcester Local First Networking Party Draws More Than 100 on November 19 at Commerce Bank

City Manager Mike O'Brien shares the Top 10
actions his administration is taking to keep
local, independent businesses in Worcester

 

Mike O'Brien & Brian Thompson photo
 
City Manager O'Brien (left) poses with Brian Thompson, president
and CEO of Commerce Bank, during the Networking Party.

 

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Business Underwriters, Sponsors & Members, and Individual Friends
To view our growing roster of locally owned, independent business Underwriters, Sponsors and Members, visit our Marketplace section. Thank you to our business Underwriters, Sponsors and Members plus our individual Friends for your valuable support. To become a business Underwriter, Sponsor or Member or an individual Friend, visit our Membership page.

Underwriters $1,000+ & Sponsors $500

*UNDERWRITER: Commerce Bank & Trust
*UNDERWRITER: Fallon Community Health Plan
*UNDERWRITER: Percy's TV & Appliance
*UNDERWRITER: Pride Productions
*UNDERWRITER: Rotmans
*UNDERWRITER: Struck Catering
*UNDERWRITER: Webster First Federal Credit Union
*UNDERWRITER: Worcester Mag
*UNDERWRITER: Worcester Regional Transit Authority
SPONSOR: Advanced Environmental Solutions
SPONSOR: Air Brush Works
SPONSOR: Beechwood Hotel
SPONSOR: C.C. Lowell
SPONSOR: Computer Hospital
SPONSOR: Domitek
SPONSOR: Francis Harvey & Sons Remodeling
SPONSOR: Greenberg, Rosenblatt, Kull & Bitsoli
SPONSOR: Herlihy Insurance Group
SPONSOR: Knight Security
SPONSOR: Mass. Liquors
SPONSOR: Miles Press
SPONSOR: W2W Festival
SPONSOR: Worcester Tornadoes

Business Members $100

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