Author Archives: Melanie Little

Why Does Supporting SMALL Local Businesses Matter?

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Big Corporate Local or Small Indie Local? “Supporting local” doesn’t necessarily mean supporting small local businesses in your community. “Local” is term that gets tossed around a lot lately. In […]

Free Delivery & Curbside Pickup: Small Businesses Adapt

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While we “Stay the Blazes Home” in Nova Scotia, free delivery and curbside pick-up are playing a vital role in sustaining our communities. It’s impressive how quickly and efficiently small […]

Buy-Local Shopper Survey: Motivations & Barriers

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We spoke to many buy-local shoppers when first designing our small and local solution for connecting folks with more small local businesses. When this platform was just a dream and […]

Supporting Local Food Providers

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Buy Local shoppers in Nova Scotia got some exciting news recently. Now we can more easily support local food providers with the “Taste of Nova Scotia” stickers or “Get Your […]

Support Local with Small Indie Gift Offerings for the Holidays

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We couldn’t agree more! The run-up to the winter festive season is a wonderful time of year here in Nova Scotia. And a great opportunity to explore more small indie […]

9 Ways to Shop Small & Local this Holiday Season

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How can you shop local? Let me count the ways… But first, a moment of recognition of the stresses that can accumulate with all the demands on our time during […]

Finding More Small Local Business Options Online

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Current Solutions to Finding Small Local Providers Are you a buy-local shopper who has trouble finding small local businesses online? We’ve chatted with many passionate buy local shoppers about how […]