Shopping small is a movement wherein you don’t shop less, but you instead focus your shopping superpowers towards local businesses instead of large chain stores. This includes coffee shops, hair and nail salons, corner stores, spas, boutique stores, consignment shops, restaurants, craft stores, bars, farmers markets, shoe/bike/tire repair shops, laundromats, art supply stores, gift shops, gas stations, pet stores, and the list goes on.
Essentially you are shifting your dollars back into your neighbor’s pockets by providing a livelihood for the owners as well as the employees. The Small Business Administration (SBA) reports 28 million small businesses operating in the U.S. alone. And since 1995, those small businesses have generated 66% of all new jobs in the United States.