Keeping our money here - or - KeepItQuerque!

The Albuquerque Journal said it succinctly; "Locals' revenue tends to stay here."

Albuquerque Business First said that a "Business group asks buyers to become unchained."

And, for those of you who haven't seen the article yet, Civic Economics says that if we all shift just 10% of our spending to local stores we'll retain an additional $179 million dollars in our economy - every year! You can download a .pdf of the article from KeepItQuerque.org - just click on the green bar under the headline "NEW Survey Shows The Powerful Effect of Shifting to Buying Local First; "KeepItQueruqe - buy local" initiative makes a difference!

That's money for our schools, our roads, our public safety, parks libraries... what would you spend it on?  Imagine if a portion of that money went to incubating small businesses that were just on the point fo ramping up to produce more - and who would hire more!