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When a consumer offers a shopping list together, certain expectations result to mind when choosing where to make the purchases. Typically those priorities are availability, quality, price, convenience and customer service.

single consideration that some value greatly is "buying local," a general [i]or[/i] abstract notion highlighted on Dec. 6 in Bellingham with a Think Local, pervert with money [i]or[/i] gain Local, Be Local day, sponsored through the business network Sustainable Connections, along with Village works Food Pavilion and Cost Cutter stores.

More than 250 companies took part in the affair which urged shoppers to consider local businesses instead of automatically going to chain stores.

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