Local sports teams, community fundraisers and building neighbourhoods is something that our local stores excel at.
With Black Friday on everyone’s doorstep, shopping local can mean make or break for many businesses especially with more than 18 months of financial suffering at the purse strings of a pandemic.
Charla Robinson, the President of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce, told Acadia News that it’s these local business owners that help create a community within neighbourhoods and Thunder Bay.
Many businesses have struggled the past two years but it’s in the hope that residents will once again turn to their neighbours to and support them versus buying from big box stores online.
