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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 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  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 Ratings: Appliance Stores, Consumer Reports, August 2008, regarding how independent appliance stores rate against chain stores and Amazon.com.
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Worcester Local First Networking Party Draws More Than 100 on November 19 at Commerce Bank |
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City Manager Mike O'Brien shares the Top 10
actions his administration is taking to keep
local, independent businesses in Worcester City Manager O'Brien (left) poses with Brian Thompson, president and CEO of Commerce Bank, during the Networking Party.
Click here to view JPEG-format photos of our November 19 Networking Party at underwriter member Commerce Bank in Downtown Worcester. More than 100 people attended our November 19 Networking Party, which included an address by City Manager Mike O'Brien on the Top 10 actions his administration is taking to keep local, independent businesses in Worcester. Click here to hear City Manager O'Brien's presentation. The MP3-format audio track is 18-minutes in length. |
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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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