02/10/2024
Very well said!
Please shop local and/or small businesses when you can!
Help us keep our dream alive!
Thank you to all that have supported my dream!
Locally owned businesses need everyone's help all year long and it's so important to find a way to help them out as so many are basically operating day to day, just hoping that they can continue to live out their dreams of owning a business. If you've never owned a business, you really have no idea how difficult things are, and over the past few years things have become exponentially worse.
The government can say that the economy is doing great, but the reality "on the ground" is quite different as business owners have to navigate every increasing prices, delays in getting products, the need to pay employees more and so much more that people who don't own businesses can't grasp.
That doesn't mean spending your hard earned money every day (after all, consumers also are feeling the facts of life these days). You're obviously on social media if you're reading this and showing some love to your favorite locally owned businesses on your own social media streams helps with the whole "word of mouth thing".
Destination Brevard was created to help locally owned businesses in any way we can, but it's truly up to everyone in every community to help out however they can.
I'm turning off comments for this post because it's not actually being put up to start a discussion, it's simply laying out some facts and how we can all help the heart and soul of every community, it's locally owned businesses.