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Take back Corporate Christmas
 
Goals and objectives
To shift 50% or more of the retail sales that go into the big box stores into the local small business's for the ENTIRE Christmas season.
 
Tactics
  • Educate people on why buying from local businesses is a more efficient use of their money.
  • Picket the Big Box Stores to create awareness of their true cost and remind customers of how buying decisions affect the community
  • Build a database / directory of small local businesses to provide people alternatives to the Big Box stores
  • Actively help market local small businesses via social media and other methods
 
Christmas belongs to people not corporations, it is not about about how much profits corporations can put in their coffer's.
 
It is about people, time spent with family and friends, sharing food and festivities with those who we care about.
 
Giving gifts and Sharing food celebrates the fact that we share our lives together on this planet.
 
More and More corporations have taken this SHARING and changed it into SELLING, thus corrupting a people based holiday into a GREED based one, just one more way to separate people from their money and take that time away from their family.
 
When you purchase at a Big Box retailer's who don't SHARE, they are removing the hours of your life (wages) from the community. 
Instead use your money to invest and share with your community by spending it with a local small business.
 
Small businesses use your hours of life (wages) within the community instead of shipping them to some far off head quarters in a city you probably have never heard of let alone lived in.  
 
When you purchase $100 of goods in a local business $73 stays local vs shipping $55 off to some corporate headquarters.
 
Buying local increases the velocity of money which is not how much money you've got, but how much you can keep circulating without letting it leak out."
 
Velocity of money was stable in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s but starting in the '80s velocity has decreased as more money has been diverted to the financial sector.
 
"In the last several months velocity has declined sharply because there's less GDP and more money, The money doesn't flow. More money is being printed, but it's not going into circulation. It is going directly into the financial sector"
 
By voting with your money, for local small businesses, it allows them to employ a wide array of supporting services. These same small businesses can then hire architects, designers, cabinet shops, sign makers and contractors for construction. This allows opportunities to grow, for local accountants, insurance brokers, computer consultants, attorneys, advertising agencies and others to help run it.
 
So join us and vote with your money for local businesses and keep our communities strong.
Include in your payment a note that reads as follows:
We are shopping at this establishment in support of the #OccupyWallStreet movement.
We are the 99%
 
 
Wal-mart - National Facts-
  • 84 percent of all sales at Wal-Mart stores came at the expense of another existing businesses within our towns. 
  • For every 214 jobs created Wal-mart the city looses 381 jobs at other businesses. 
  • 244 Wal-Mart stores and distribution centers in 35 states that have received state and local development subsidies totaling just over $1 billion. 
  • The average Wal-Mart worker requires $730 in taxpayer-funded healthcare and $1,222 in other forms of assistance, such as food stamps and subsidized housing. 
 
Wal-Mart - Missouri Facts
  • At least 23 Wal-Mart locations have received subsidies worth about $90.7 million in Missouri.
  • At least 4 Wal-Mart locations in Missouri even after receiving tax credits have challenged their property tax assessment.
  • Wal-Mart receives about $10.4 million a year from a state policy that allows retailers to keep a portion of the sales tax they collect from customers.
 
Why should Wal-mart enjoy favors from our Government that our community-based businesses do not?