The Shop Locals First Card is a pre-loaded, pre-paid credit for you to spend at local businesses within the Shop Locals First Community Network.  It allows the customer the flexibility of indulging in all the Shop Locals First Community Network has to offer with one single card.  The Shop Locals First Card continues to grow in value since new and existing independent merchants are constantly adding new pre-paid credit amounts to the card to entice your business.  It's like having part of your purchase within the Shop Locals First Community Network already pre-paid.

"So what's in it for the consumer?"
Great question.
Simply put, as an owner of the Shop Locals First Card, you receive thousands of dollars in pre-paid, continuing credit to be used within the Shop Locals First Community Network.  That's right.  Over $5,000 in pre-paid credit for you to use in 100s separate independent merchants all over your area. 
There's no catch, no fine print.  Just a pre-paid $5,000 invitation for you to Shop Locals First.  Free money to encourage you to Shop Locals First. 

The pre-loaded, pre-paid Shop Locals First Card.

Let's say, for example, that you need a set of new tires for your SUV before heading out to the beach this summer. 
Option One:  You can shop at Wal-Mart, Sams Club, Costco, Goodyear or any of the other large, big-box national chains for their best prices.
Or, Option Two: You can choose to shop local, as a holder of the Shop Locals First Card, have an amount of your purchase already pre-paid with your Shop Locals First Card.  It's like a independent merchant gift card that you can use at many locations..

You drive up to, for example, Sommerville Tire and Auto Center, show them your Shop Locals First Card, and have $25.00 of the price of your tires already pre-paid.  How?  By using your Shop Locals First Card.  As a member of the Shop Locals First Community Network, Sommerville Tire are Auto Center credits you $25.00 for simply buying your tires from them and not from one of their big-box competitors. 
And, as a way of saying "thank-you and come back again," your Shop Locals First Card will be loaded with additional merchant credits to use on your next visit or a Loyalty Points System where points are accrued and then redeemed for goods and services. 
For example:

And every participating business member of the Shop Locals First Community Network offers a program like this.

Where Can I Use the Shop Locals First Card?

The Shop Locals First Card can be used at any of the participating members of the Shop Locals First Community Network as often as you like.  You can use the pre-paid credit with friends at a restaurant for lunch, for a movie with your kids that afternoon and again when you pick-up your dry-cleaning on the way home.  It comes pre-loaded with thousands of dollars in pre-paid credit issued by local independent businesses who are members of the Shop Locals First Community Network and who value your business.  They, like you, want to keep local dollars in the local community.

Some of the business categories represented with the Shop Locals First Card are:

Remember, Shop Locals First  is a network of locally owned, independent businesses and community organizations joined together to keep money and character in their neighborhoods and build a thriving local living economy.  In doing so, they hope to promote the overall social, economic, and environmental health of their economy and communities and to keep their local economy healthy, diverse, and stable.
Buy local?  You bet!

Hence, the Shop Locals First Card.

How Shop Locals First Benefits the Entire Community

		Locally owned independent businesses give back to the local community.
New and better jobs are created at all levels of the economy when money is recycled locally.				Local professional services such as accounting and banking, stay in the local area.
		More local residents are hired as managers and employees.

When local business owners and residents purchase services and supplies locally, the economic benefits affects the entire community.  Shop Locals First is committed to educating the local consumers to this fact.

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What Others Are Saying About the Shop Locals First Community Card

"With the money we saved at Christmas using our Shop Locals First Card we've just about got our vacation paid for this year.  Great job, guys!"

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