Every month we’ll be sharing stories from across Cape Cod about how our local businesses do more for this community than simply provide goods and services and why shopping with them is more than just a single transaction.Our Sales Manager, Ian Lee, was on the hunt for a boating knife. After doing ...
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Four Myths of Shopping Local
While Love Live Local has been working for almost a decade to expound upon the virtues of shopping local, there are still a few stories people tell themselves about why they can’t or shouldn’t shop local.
1. It doesn’t really matterAlthough it is hard to imagine that as an individual our ...
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Small businesses have been facing challenges for decades – it’s time for action
There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that the COVID-19 pandemic devastated many small businesses across the country and left the smallest businesses in Massachusetts hurting the most. In 2020 nearly 100,000 independent businesses closed permanently in the US and according to a report in November 2020, ...
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Corporate consolidation, concentration and power is a threat to Cape Cod’s vitality
When Love Live Local became a nonprofit organization in early 2020, we dedicated ourselves to communicating the importance of supporting small business and adopted the mission of fostering an economically sustainable future for Cape Cod. Our aim is to work with local businesses to achieve their ...
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Monopoly power in the local broadband market leaves Cape Codders disconnected
It was never more apparent that high-speed internet access is an essential public infrastructure than throughout the COVID-19 pandemic when much of our civic, economic, and personal lives shifted online. But corporate control over broadband service leaves millions of Americans across the ...
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Main Street shops aren’t afraid of competition, but corporate retailers don’t play by the same rules
Independent businesses are significant drivers of competition, jobs, and economic growth in American communities. But by convincing consumers and policy makers they are more convenient, efficient, and affordable, large corporate retailers – from chains and box stores to online behemoths - have been ...
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