CONTACT USChristmas is getting ever closer. Crikey! Where’s that credit card. And if the weather reports are to be believed we are heading for a cold snap to boot! A tenner says the only ‘snowflake’ we see on Christmas day is the neighbour’s cat, sleeping in-front of the fire after pinching the turkey!
The Christmas period is tough for some businesses, but the retail sector is in full swing tempting us ‘happy’ shoppers into their stores to part with the year’s hard earned cash. The Sedgefield borough has a wealth of shops catering for all sorts of shopping needs. The temptation is to join the masses on the A1 and head to the region’s own Nirvana’esq retail-shop-fest that is the Metro Centre, but my thought to you aforementioned ‘happy’ shoppers this Christmas is to look at what’s on our doorstep before we brave the marble corridors and fun packed car-parks of shopping facilities further north.
The retail businesses of our area have loads to offer and can provide a personal and friendly service that just might get you and the family in the Christmas spirit. And have you coming back in the New Year to support our local economy.
By spending in the shops, pubs, butchers, green grocers, garden centres and the anything in-betweens we are supporting local people and keeping our £’s in our local economy. Did you know that if you spend one quid in a large multinational supermarket only 20p stays in the local economy? If you spend that same quid with a local retailer nearly £1.20 is retained. And it will re-circulate up to five times! Food for thought, just a taster to get you warmed up for the annual eating-contest that are the Christmas holidays.
I’m sure we will all be trudging off to some shrine of consumerism at some point though, and the wonderful world of internet shopping will save us from some of the pain, but I for one will be making an effort to use the shops on my doorstep where I can. Let’s support our local businesses and the people in them, as I for one, would miss them if they were gone.
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