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Welcome 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 200+ business Underwriters, Sponsors and 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  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 200+ business Underwriters, Sponsors and 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 Ratings: Appliance Stores, Consumer Reports, August 2008, regarding how independent appliance stores rate against chain stores and Amazon.com.
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Check Out Our 2009-2010 Shopping Directory! |
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Click here for the Marketplace pages of our members, which are searchable by name, address and zip code. At each member's location, you can get a complimentary copy of our 2009-2010 Shopping Directory.
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Food Donations as of March 12 To Come Cash Donations as of March 12 To Come Congratulations to Erin Zamarro of A.A. Zamarro Real Estate, who won the raffle prize during our Think Local, Thank Local Campaign Kick-Off Party: A $200 U.S. Savings Bond from Webster First Federal Credit Union.
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WLF featured by WBJ, BBJ & NECN |
Think Frugal, Buy Local Tough times encourage local businesses to band together to capture revenueBy Livia Gershon Worcester Business Journal Staff Writer 12/07/09  Click here for the complete story
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 Send this story to a friend Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: // <iframe src="http://api.recaptcha.net/noscript?k=6LehbAEAAAAAALNztG-3ImgdBiR9qxs1a6hxRNML" width="500" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe> <textarea id="recaptcha_challenge" name="recaptcha_challenge_field" rows="3" cols="40"></textarea> <input type="hidden" name="recaptcha_response_field" value="manual_challenge"></input> 
Michael Kanter, owner of Cambridge Naturals,
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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.
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