Shop Local Fredericton

Shop Local Fredericton is all about promoting and supporting our locally owned and operated businesses. It’s about your choices as a consumer. And you have the choice to do something great with your dollar.

When you buy local, you are investing directly in your own community. You’re keeping significantly more dollars here in Fredericton; you’re creating jobs for your friends and your families, helping to support community non-profits, cultural events and local sports teams.

Local businesses offer much stronger support for local economies. Study after study shows that dollars spent at local businesses have a greater economic impact than dollars spent elsewhere. Local employers spend a larger portion of their total revenues on local labour to run their businesses, to supply their businesses and sell their merchandise. They shop local themselves, acquiring local goods and services at more than twice the rate of national chain retailers. And local stores keep a larger share of their profits within the local economy.

Read on to see how just modest changes in your own spending and buying decisions can translate into millions of dollars being re-invested in our own community.