Top Ten reasons to Buy Local
Support yourself: when you buy from an independent, locally owned business, (like Double Take VA) rather than a nationally-owned businesses, significantly more of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms -- continuing to strengthen the economic base of the community.
Support your community: Non-profit organizations receive an average 250% more support from smaller business owners than they do from large businesses. Double Take VA donates proceeds from special sales to American Breast Cancer Foundation, Tidewater Autism Society, Red Cross, and the Samaritan House.
Keep your community unique: our one-of-a-kind businesses are an integral part of the distinctive character of south-eastern Virginia. Tourism also benefits because when people visit they typically want to see local shops and restaurants to see the local sense of the area.
Reduce environmental impact: locally-owned businesses make more local purchases which requires less transportation costs. And businesses like Double Take VA participate in green initiatives, because it is part of their business mission. Double Take VA uses wooden hangers, prints on soy paper and uses paper shopping bags. More than that - they are living the mission of an eco-friendly business: Rethink, Reuse, Recycle - because all purchases are from local, to local, and the organizations benefiting are local.
Create jobs: Small local businesses are the largest employer, nationwide.
Get better service: local businesses create loyalty - in their employees, as well. They will often hire people with a better understanding of the products they are selling and that take more time to get to know customers.
Invest: Local businesses are owned by people who live in this community, are less likely to leave, and are more invested in the community’s future.
Taxes are put to local use: Local businesses in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure investment and make more efficient use of public services as compared to nationally owned stores entering the community.
Buy what you want, not what someone wants you to buy: A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term. A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based not on a national sales plan but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
Encourage local prosperity: A growing body of economic research shows that in an increasingly homogenized world, entrepreneurs and skilled workers are more likely to invest and settle in communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character.
The moral of the story: Buy Local. Rethink, Reuse, Recycle. Double Take VA has two locations, one in Virginia Beach and the other in the Ghent area of Norfolk.
604 Hilltop West Shopping Center Virginia Beach, VA 23451
(757) 422-3300
517 West 21st Street
Norfolk, VA 23517
Featuring Up-Cycled Furniture and Curvy Corners.
(757) 533-5352