Shop Franklin First! This winter we encourage you to support our local business community by keeping your shopping dollars at home. Use the menu above to reacquaint yourself with all the shopping that Franklin, NC has to offer.

So why is it important to keep your shopping dollars in Franklin, North Carolina? Here are several good reasons:

• Where we choose to shop, eat out and have fun is what supports the unique quality of our community. Small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation, low prices, and a more diverse range of product and service choices. Independent businesses house independent minds that make different choices reflecting the needs of their individual communities. It is these choices that make Franklin, NC, interesting, diverse, and attractive.
  
  
• Small local businesses are the largest employer nationally and in every community; local businesses provide the most jobs to community residents.
  
  
• Several studies have shown that money spent at independently owned local businesses stays in our community, multiplying as it circulates, so that each dollar spent at a local business returns three to five times that amount within your local economy. This strengthens the economic base of Franklin.
  
  
• The people who own local businesses, live in this community and care about Franklin's future! In fact, the business owners have much of their life savings invested in their businesses and homes, and a natural interest in the long-term health of Franklin.
  
  
• Local ownership means that important decisions are made by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions. Locally owned businesses build strong communities by linking neighbors and other local businesses in a web of economic growth, and by contributing more to local causes. Community nonprofit organizations receive an average of 250% more support from smaller business owners than they do from large businesses.