WHY SHOP LOCAL?
Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is
Support your friends, neighbors, and yourself. Invest in our community; help to create a stronger and healthier Highland by keeping our money here.
What Goes Around Comes Around
Two or three times as much money spent stays in the local economy when you buy goods and services from locally-owned businesses.
Community Sustainability
Local stores help sustain vibrant, compact, and walk-able downtown centers - which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, vehicle use, habitat loss, and pollution.
Keep Our Community Unique
One-of-a-kind businesses are an integral part of the distinctive character of Highland.
Create Collective Prosperity
Locally-owned businesses invest more in local labor, pay more local taxes, spend more time on community-based decisions, and create local events. In doing so, they create more opportunities for all of us here in our community.
Local Owners Care About Highland
Local business owners live in and love Highland. They are less likely to leave and more invested in the future of our whole community.
Give Back and Take Care
Local business owners make more local purchases themselves. Locally-owned companies and employees are statistically more likely to give to local charities.