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1. robinmooney
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   Shop Locally on Small Business Saturday

   The Riverside Chamber of Commerce is encouraging shoppers and service seekers to patronize their favorite local stores and help fuel the economy this Saturday, November 26th.

   "Small Business Saturday" was created in 2010 to rally holiday shoppers to patronize local, small businesses with as much enthusiasm as they give the big box stores on Black Friday and the internet on Cyber Monday.

   Look for special offers and discounts throughout town, such as a 10% discount on purchases at Funky Monkey and Arcade Jewelers; 10% off all candles at Coveny Lane; a FREE Chicago Mustang T-Shirt with the purchase of every season ticket at www.ChicagoMustangFootball.net, and more. Relax with a meal and drinks at one of our restaurants, or get your grocery shopping done at Riverside Foods where you can enter for a chance to win a $25 Gift Card.

   Additionally , the Chamber will be selling commemorative Holiday Stroll ornaments in Centennial Park on November 26th from 1:00 -2:30pm during Tree Trimming. The ornaments are $10 each and come with $5 in Chamber Bucks, redeemable at most local businesses.

   The 2nd annual Small Business Saturday® is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses in communities like ours on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. When we all shop small, it will be huge:

   http://youtu.be/wBJJUWt47rk

   Posted Wednesday Nov 23, 2011 09:25 #

2. notspatny
   Member

   Live locally shop locally!

   Posted Wednesday Nov 23, 2011 15:46 #

3. notspatny
   Member

   Yes, buy American, but more importantly - support local businesses.

   Posted Friday Nov 25, 2011 08:52 #

4. anonymous
   Member

   How is it more important to support local business than to buy American?

   Posted Friday Nov 25, 2011 09:36 #

5. spatny
   Member

   By contrast:
   India MPs in uproar over retail reform plans

   Changing the way Indians shop
   India open to global supermarkets
   A rosy future for India's economy?
   There has been uproar in India's parliament over the cabinet's decision to open up the retail market to global supermarket chains.

   One key government ally, the Trinamool Congress, joined opposition parties in shouting slogans and unfurling banners.

   The lower house had to be adjourned, and Trade Minister Anand Sharma instead held a press conference to spell out details of the policy.

   He said the "India-specific" scheme would create tens of millions of jobs.

   The cabinet's move allows 51% foreign direct ownership (FDI) of multi-brand retail stores, allowing groups like Tesco and Wal-Mart to open stores. Such operators currently can only sell wholesale in India and not directly to customers.

   The policy is an executive decision and does not need parliament's approval.

   Supporters of the move say it will increase competition and quality while reducing prices, which have been hit by close to double-digit inflation.

   Opponents say the multi-nationals will squeeze out India's smaller and poorer traders and drive down prices paid to India's farmers.

   Posted Friday Nov 25, 2011 09:50 #

6. uncle jack
   Member

   way to go spatny! hijacking another thread to spew your roubini like rhetoric. you've developed a terrible habit of taking a local blog designed by local people to support local events and businesses and turning it into an almost anarchist view of the world. some of us aren't interested in your garbage. pull a houdini next time instead instead of a roubini.

   Posted Monday Nov 28, 2011 15:56 #

7. spatny
   Member

   "notspatny" "unclejack" Who are you? Why don't you use your real names? What are you afraid of? You can speak up? It's your constitutional right. Go ahead, use your real name. It's OK....

   The thread was about buying at small businesses. I quoted an article about the thrust of large businesses - in this case Walmart - entering markets abroad as they have done here and squeezing out small businesses with predatory practices, and about some people in another country opposing that. Drive across this country - get off the interstates, go through small towns where the giants have moved in, and see what's left.

   And you think that is "anarchist?" You better look in the dictionary. And BTW, which side are you on? Are you for small businesses?Do you buy your appliances, electronics, books and music, clothing locally? Did you "Shop Sm,all?" In Riverside?

   If you don't like it, don't read it. If you don't have the stones to sign your real name, don't use mine.

   Posted Monday Nov 28, 2011 20:14 #

8. spatny
   Member

   Some stats I red/saw/heard today. Black Friday sales figures up 9% over a year ago - it seems consumer confidence is coming back. That's good.

   But Sunday's Sun-Times had an article on "The Lost Decade - Cook County loses 26% of its manufacturing jobs over the last ten years. Cook was second nationally in losses, down 89,000 jobs, with L.A. County the leader at 113,000 down and Wayne County (Detroit) down 84,000. Every county in the Chicago area lost manufacturing jobs in that decade - more than 125,000. "It's ben a disaster. We've never had a downturn on this scale," said a director for the AFL-CIO. "We have so decimated our internal capacities and infrastructures. Those lost skills translate to the innovations of the future." That sounds bad to me.

   U.S. factory employment fell from 17.3 million in summer 2000 to 11.8 million last July, a drop of nearly 32%." And that's very bad for the future outlook. Losing LCD screen industry capability, for instance, causes many other job losses. DuPage county lost even more than Cook - 27.29%.

   America's manufacturing job base hasn't been this low in more than 60 years, and we still produce more goods than any other country - even China. But the job loss is snowballing. The other night I heard a guy on Bloomberg saying that investors can no longer bank on this being a 10% country, where investment could be counted on the produce 8-12%. He said he didn't think the rate you could bank on now was more than 5-8%, and it might go lower. He said he could see no sign that there was any bright area on the horizon to revers this. BTW, it wasn't Roubini.

   FYI - the fastest growing job categories for new production jobs were "food batch makers" (whatever that is), workers in waste and water treatment and "meat, poultry and fish cutters and trimmers." That doesn't sound too promising for wage growth.

   Posted Tuesday Nov 29, 2011 17:01 #

9. spatny
   Member

   Today on the BBC - a follow-up to what I posted earlier.

   "India's government is reported to have put on hold plans to open up the retail market to global supermarket chains.

   Just days after approving long-awaited proposals to raise the limits on foreign investment, a government ally said he had been told the policy was suspended.

   The decision to allow chains such as Walmart and Tesco into India has sparked fierce opposition.

   Critics fear the move would destroy millions of jobs and businesses.

   Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress contributes 19 votes to the ruling Congress party-led coalition, said that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had told her that the policy would be put on hold.

   "(Mukherjee) has told me that the centre has decided to suspend implementation of the decision to allow FDI (foreign direct investment) in retail," Ms Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, told reporters in Calcutta.

   "He has told me that the decision will not be implemented unless there is consensus on the issue," said the chief minister, who is an opponent of the policy.

   We should not be envious of Wal-Mart”

   L.K. Advani
   Bharatiya Janata Party

   Earlier this week, Food Minister KV Thomas said the cabinet has agreed to 51% foreign ownership of multi-brand retail stores, allowing groups like Wal-Mart and Tesco to open stores.

   Currently, such operators can only sell wholesale in India but not directly to customers.

   The cap on single-brand stores - such as Apple or Reebok - was to be raised from 51% to 100%, Mr Thomas also announced.

   Different strokes for different folks. Good for them.

   Posted Saturday Dec 3, 2011 15:43 #

10. JamesMarsh
    Member

    I work with many Indians and they were excited about the relaxing of ownership rules. They firmly believe that the competition from companies outside India would provide much need competition for the stores at home.

    I say bad for them. Walmart & Tesco provide quality good at a fair price - something, according to my Indian friends, that is lacking in India.

    Posted Saturday Dec 3, 2011 18:35 #

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