Beth Macy Quotes

I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

I support British designers as much as I can.

If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.

We try to buy as much American-made shirts as we can and stuff to sell. It's very difficult to cover every base as much as our country has been saturated with foreign products.

I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

I hope every good citizen will never again purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference in price what it may.

At least when you have public utilities, the money they take stays in the community.

I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

Buy local fruits and veggies at the grocery store. You will support local businesses and cut down on all the fuel that is used to truck produce around from state to state.

Buy locally where possible, but if you can't get the very best locally, don't buy locally. Buy it from where it is best.

It's good to put money back into communities.

SNAP benefits help local economies because the benefits are spent at local grocery stores - with locally grown and locally-made products. I remember many years ago, while on food stamps, I advocated for the benefits to be spent at local farmers markets - a move that has helped local economies even more.

By using locally manufactured products, you will be able to help the small entrepreneurs in your area to a great extent.

The horticultural industry is unimaginative and dominated by vast, supermarket-like outlets. But the small nurseries and growers remain - praise them with your wallets, not your memories.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

Small business – the very fiber of our community life.

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

I'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern thing. It's a cultural thing.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

We have made the decision that we're going to take some key products, such as the Wrangler and the Grand Cherokee, and protect those as being true American icons: produce them in the U.S. and make them available nowhere else.

I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.

People say they'll pay more for something made in the U.S., but they won't actually do it.

If I become mayor of London, my single biggest priority will be to build thousands more homes every year. I will set a target to make half of all the new homes that are built genuinely affordable, with first dibs for Londoners.