Page 4 - CFESA Magazine July / August 2018
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
JOHN SCHWINDT
SHOPPING LOCALLY we need a mall every 5 miles. Now they are
all either closing down or becoming new
Shopping locally. Shopping local. The same communities with housing around shops and
but different. Buying from locally owned restaurants. What happens when the shops
businesses keeps your community alive. A close down, and we get everything mail
recent report showed 75% of revenue from ordered? No more jobs for the local people.
locally owned businesses stays in the city. Then no mail orders because nobody has
Shopping local (from a big chain store) money.
sends most of that money to the holding
companies and corporations somewhere I have a brother-in-law that utilizes online
else. shopping for most of his purchases. We
have an ongoing debate about this issue,
I am a big fan of the local hardware store (I but it is a subject that hits close to home
want to be buried in the A&A Tradin’ Post), in our industry and is something that we
the local diner (if you are ever in Syracuse all should think about. Now apply that
NY, go to Coleman’s Irish Pub and get a scenario to our industry. Our local service
Beef on Weck sandwich and a Kilkenny Irish companies also have knowledgeable, decent
Cream Stout. The horseradish will make you paid staff that have worked and lived in
cry), the local grocery store, and the local our communities for generations. If the
parts and service providers. They are there local service company doesn’t stock parts
when you need them, 16 hours a day/6 days anymore because everyone is buying them
a week/313 days a year. (I appreciate places online, then when Burger King’s broiler or
that close on Sundays). McDonald’s grill goes down, is it viable for
them to wait until tomorrow or the next day
Our local stores have knowledgeable, to get the parts needed to repair the unit?
decent paid staff that have worked and lived If everyone orders their gas hoses online, a
in our communities for generations. When bank of fryers will be shut down indefinitely
I have a plumbing problem, or an electrical waiting on the parts to arrive.
issue, or a mechanical failure in my car, it
is so important to be able to go down to Try to take your car to a repair shop; they
the local supplier and get what you need to troubleshoot the problem, tell you what
repair your issue. Not go online and order parts you need, then you tell them that
the part and have it in one or two days. As I you will buy the parts online and bring
agree that (at least in my town) we are over- them in so they can replace them for you
retailed, it seems that someone thought that and only charge you labor. Better yet, take
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