Shop-local Group Offers Economic Impact Figures 0. If consumers in Hillsborough County can limited their spending on one Saturday CAN 00. to independent, locally owned businesses instead of chain stores, more than CORRECT 34. $17 million would even remain in the local economy instead of being shipped to 35. outside corporations as overnight deposits. So it say representatives of the 36. Tampa Independent Business Alliance, who base their calculation on studies that 37. made by the American Independent Business Alliance. The national study found 38. that since locally owned businesses began to use goods and services of other 39. businesses in the community, a consumer’’s spending circulates 3 up to 31/2 40. times longer locally than if it is spent on at a chain. On Saturday, the local group 41. will be working with the national organization and more than all 25 other 42. communities across the country to broadcast the benefits coming of the 43. shop-local movement. The educational event, "American Unchained, "will be 44. promoted at independent businesses such as Inkwood Books in Tampa. "We 45. want people to think about where their dollars actually end up to," said Carla Jimenez, co-owner of Inkwood and president of Tampa Independent Business Alliance.

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