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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2398601" data-attributes="member: 14159">Personally, my support of small local businesses isn't just limited to FLGS.  I go out of my way to avoid large chain resturants for example, and eat at local diners and eateries instead.  I shop at local bookstores (Joseph-Beth is magnificent if you're ever in Lexington, beats the pants off of any Barnes & Noble or Borders in every way) instead of the Barnes & Noble way out by the interstate.  If I can get something at anywhere other than Wal-Mart (even if it's another chain like Meijers), I'll do that.  It's just one of my quirks that I try to avoid "big box" and national chain stores whenever possible and support the little guy.  This goes double when I'm travelling, why bother eating at a Denny's or Applebees when I'm in a new city, I could have that anywhere, I'll seek out a local place (or at least a regional chain that isn't present where I live).Even if it costs a little more, I know the money is more likely to stay in the local economy, it is more likely to support businesses that treat their employees better (in my experience, I've seen big companies treat their employees a lot more inhumanly than small businesses, probably because there are so many layers of separation and dehumanization from the people who make the policies to where they are implimented and the people they affect), and it keeps my home city as a place with a unique character and appearance, instead of having the exact same resturants and stores that every other place in the country has.</blockquote>

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