Posts Tagged ‘shop local’
Business Beat: The Multiplier Effect at Work in the Hat
What if I gave you a $50 gift card to your favorite restaurant? You could go for lunch by yourself and try to stuff two meals into your belly, but it’s more likely that you’d invite a couple friends for dinner and wine and run up a bill of $150. The restaurant just multiplied a…
Read MoreBusiness Beat: Local First – Building our Business Ecosystem through Recovery
Business Beat: Local First – Building our Business Ecosystem through Recovery Almost 98% of businesses in Canada and within Alberta are small businesses with approximately 76% of Canadians employed by private sector businesses. In the southeast Alberta Palliser region, we have 4700 businesses with 96.5% of those being small businesses. When you factor in our…
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