LOOSE ENDS: The importance of shopping local

This season of giving promises to be a challenge for many families. The commercial aspect of it is always bloated. The biggest and wealthiest advertisers go all out in every form of communication, radio, television, and social media. The numbers of consumers depending on online shopping, for all of their purchases, is growing. The number of customers going to shopping centers or small businesses near their communities has declined so much in these past years,…