1. Business alliance urges consumers to shop local
(News & Reports/News & Reports)

... Thanksgiving. Austin Unchained asks residents to purchase only from locally owned merchants for one day in hopes that consumers will eventually break the habit of solely shopping at chain stores. People ...

2. Membership Levels
(Shopping/Membership)

... Individual Merchant Membership All business members of AIBA are locally owned and operated, and are not publicly traded companies. Over 50% of the ownership of the business reside in the Austin ...

3. Liquor Distribution
(Member Resources/Permits and Regulations)

Most of the Third Thursday merchants have found it's better to offer beer or wine inside the store or on a patio and not host a keg in the front parking lot. A keg out front is more difficult to control ...

4. Guadalupe IBIZ District
(IBIZ Districts/Guadalupe IBIZ District)

... Waterstone Aesthetics $20 Off at I Luv Video Free car wash at Arbor Car Wash $10 off at Spider House And even more from these merchants: Antone’s Record Shop • Dreamers Junior’s • ...

5. Accomplishments
(About Us/About Us)

... of a sustained collective marketing effort. In December 2002, AIBA was one of four entities funding the study Economic Impact Analysis: A Case Study of Local Merchants vs. Chain Retailers which revealed, ...

6. Local Small-business Owners Hope Trend of Shopping Local Continues in New Year
(News & Reports/News & Reports)

... spent at a chain store there was a local economic impact of $13, whereas the same $100 spent locally returned $45 to the local economy. The study cited a locally owned merchant’s higher likelihood ...

7. Austin Unchained: Keeping Our Dollars Weird
(News & Reports/News & Reports)

... holiday spending from chain stores to locally owned merchants, the local economy would get a $14 million boost. Unique Destinations Unless you love the mall, it's generally more fun to browse small, ...

8. IBIZ Districts: Voting local with holiday dollars
(News & Reports/News & Reports)

... spent $100 of its holiday budget with locally owned merchants rather than at chain stores, about $10 million more would stay in our local economy. So while finishing up the holiday shopping and eating, ...

9. Campaign urges shoppers to think 'local'
(News & Reports/News & Reports)

... South Lamar and a portion of Guadalupe Street near the University of Texas campus. Independent merchants who repair musical instruments and equipment make up the store known as the Musical Exchange.  ...

10. Ho-Ho-Homegrown Holidays
(News & Reports/News & Reports)

... owned merchants, the local economic impact would reach approximately $10 million," notes the nonprofit's Web site (www.ibuyaustin.com). Economic activism or "voting with your dollars" is indeed particularly ...

11. States Are Battling Against Wal-Mart Over Health Care
(News & Reports/News & Reports)

... Stores. The company, despite its popularity with consumers, has grown accustomed to being accused of crushing Main Street merchants with its sprawling stores and low prices and of driving down wages for ...

12. Celebrating Independents: America's Independent Businesses Have Reasons for Optimism
(News & Reports/News & Reports)

... of private merchants, who went to vend tea for their own account in the ports of the colonies,," according to Tea Party participant George Hewes, "but, on the contrary, ships of an enormous burthen . . ...