2023 Thanksgiving Holiday Sees Record Sales
Starting with our Thanksgiving meal, we’re purchasing more of our holiday gifts and celebration needs from our friends and neighbors — locally owned business owners.
Choose Indie Sustainable Month: Call for Partners
Grow our Choose Indie Sustainable Month Campaign, part of the Choose Indie Local year-round movement. Become a partner!
Our Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon
Actor Kevin Bacon supported our Shift Your Shopping for Good promotion in 2013. Thanks to the work of our core organizing team, we garnered amazing media attention through this hilarious video starring Melvin Macon.
Choose Indie Local and Sustain Your Local Supply Chain
By Roman Mukendi, AMIBA Resilient Local Economies Intern When we Choose Indie Local, we contribute immensely to resiliency and security in our local supply chain, which forms the backbone of our local economies. Over time many U.S. companies established their...
Moose’s Corner: Local Economy Innovations
Each month, Michael Shuman (a.k.a. The Moose) spotlights local business network innovations—to inspire, strengthen, and spread our larger movement. Our first Moose’s Corner shined on Thomas Barr, Local First Arizona’s Vice President of Business...
Take the Indie Challenge
This July, celebrate Independents Month by signing on to the Indie Challenge today! Pledge to buy only from locally owned businesses for a day, week, or more — you choose.
