When you shop at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits:

• Spend $100 at a local and $68 of that stays in your community. Spend the same $100 at a national chain, and your community only sees $43.
• Local businesses create higher-paying jobs for our neighbors.
• More of your taxes are reinvested in your community--where they belong.

• Buying local means less packaging, less transportation, and a smaller carbon footprint.
• Shopping in a local business district means less infrastructure, less maintenance, and more money to beautify your community.

• Local retailers are your friends and neighbors—support them and they’ll support you.
• Local businesses donate to charities at more than twice the rate of national chains.
• More independents means more choice, more diversity, and a truly unique community.

Now is the time to stand up and join your fellow individuals in the IndieBound mission supporting local businesses and celebrating independents.

IndieBound supports Independent Business Alliances around the country.

Mission

The mission of the IndieBound.org community is to help people across the United States share and find independently-owned businesses.

Who am I?

YOU are an imaginative, thoughtful, civic-minded individual who wants to shop locally and support your community. And when you travel, you want to see something new, do something different. You like variety, creativity, and diversity, and you always value a new experience over the same old same old.