Five ways pet stores can get a share of the estimated $ 15.4 billion that will be
spent at local businesses on November 25th.
In addition to being mayor, players are also residents, and can earn money to
spend at local businesses on Main Street, get to know their neighbours and collect myriad items like insects, fish, fossils and fruit, some of which can be donated to the town museum for visitors to admire.
In fact, a dollar
spent at a local business turns over seven times in that community; while the same dollar spent at a box store or chain only turns over 2.5 times.
With GLA working in your community, you can help homeowners save up to 80 percent on their electricity bills, allowing them more money to pay their mortgage,
spend at local businesses and invest in their children's education.
Not exact matches
By 2011 the U.S. Senate officially recognized the event and in 2012, an estimated $ 5.5 billion was
spent on Small
Business Saturday
at local businesses around the nation.
A campaign created by American Express is aimed
at getting holiday shoppers out in numbers to our
local small
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A campaign created by American Express is aimed
at getting holiday shoppers out in numbers to our
local small
businesses spending their gifting dollars.
The Gurnee Park District also
spends about $ 7,000 a year to rent pool time
at local schools and has deals
at some pools where it pays nothing, said Susie Kurvilla, the Park District's
business manager.
Raising the minimum wage promotes economic growth by putting money in the pockets of working families who
spend it immediately on necessities
at local businesses.
«The amount of money we are
spending on entertainment industry incentives are astronomical, especially when you look
at the state and
local tax burden across the state,» said Greg Biryla, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, a Rochester - based
business group.
The time Trump
spends at Mar - a-Lago means clogged roads and strict security protocols that hurt
local businesses and frustrate residents, though economic development officials are ecstatic over the free publicity provided by news reporters» live waterfront shots.
Having retired from the spy
business, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington)
spends his days working for a home improvement store, and his nights reading the classics while sipping tea
at a
local diner.
As part of a corporate work - study program, the students
spend one day a week
at a
local Houston
business from 9 to 5.
And an internship program allowed qualified students to
spend substantial amounts of time
at local business or professional sites, including restaurants, hospitals, and law and architectural offices.
(By contrast, public school teachers who receive a pay increase probably would
spend at least some of that increase on
local businesses.)
Half of each instructional day is
spent at internships with
local businesses, with academic support.
As repeatedly proven by Building Alliances for
Local Living Economies (BALLE),
spending at a locally owned
business on average keeps 68 out of every 100 dollars circulating within the community.
Given that these highly engaged Yelpers are turning to the site to discover and
spend money
at local businesses, retailers should consider taking advantage of Yelp's suite of free tools to build out their virtual storefront.
I don't see this changing too many people's dining habits from a personal standpoint (I
spend more than enough times in hotels as it is without going into my
local Marriotts for dinner just to earn some more points) but, for those who visit for
business meetings or conferences but don't actually stay
at the Marriott, this will be a welcome bonus.
A remarkably quirky article from Gadling on how Hospitality Employees Waste 1.7 Million Hours Annually Creating Towel Origami From the story — Employees
at hotels, aboard cruise ships and
at spas
spend entire shifts
at their places of
business folding, rolling and tucking towels to resemble
local and exotic wildlife.
In sorting data by destination, Certify determined that sharing services are most popular among
business travelers to the epicenter of the sharing economy, San Francisco, where Uber accounted for 79 percent of
spending on
local rides, and
spending on AirBnB was highest in the country
at an average of $ 558 per stay.
The late Hiroshi Yamauchi,
at that time the president of Nintendo Co., Ltd., agreed to
spend his own money to purchase the majority ownership of the team in order to show Nintendo's appreciation to the U.S. for helping Nintendo do
business in the country, and to contribute to the
local residents and area.
If you have a student card loaded with a certain amount of money that you can
spend in the campus bookstore, eateries, grocery, or
at select
local businesses, don't let that prepaid discretionary income go to waste!
After quitting her job
at a
local telco, Mugambi
spent the next two and a half years dabbling in a small
business with little success.
A
local business is chosen
at random, and the «cash mob»
spends their money
at the merchant's shop.
Later
at Pacific Sierra Publishing, he would become known as a «fixer,» turning papers neglected by the
local business community into their top two advertising
spends.