Do you buy local?

strtdv

Wondering if anyone else makes a bit of an effort to buy local in any particular area?

In this age of globalisation, with pretty much every town offering the same range of generic shops and every shop offering the same range of generic products, it's quite nice to buy something that's locally made and keeps the money in the local area.

I'm currently drinking a very nice pint of locally brewed stout, and far prefer going to our local butcher than buying meat in Tesco. 

What else do you buy locally?

thecolourbox

I buy pedals from the local Facebook gear exchange?

Sporky

Some. Farmers market stuff and Hog's Back Brewery  plus Silent Pool gin. 

Phil_aka_Pip

Bread eggs bacon. I believe some of the veg in the farm shop is also local.

WezV

Mostly the butchers and the brewers.

underdog

I try to keep to local strip clubs.

VimFuego

meat, veg, dairy, cider, women.

hywelg

I only ever eat locally grown bananas.......

Bridgehouse

I can I can’t?

Funkfingers

ESBlonde

Yes a fair amount of food stuffs but seasonal variation means some fresh fruit is flown in from around the Mediterranean. 
Local butchery is a big feature and we grow fruit and veg on our allotment. 
Even in our little town it' possible to make a difference.

GoldenEraGuitars

I try to shop local. But there are so many miserable buggers behind the counter that I simply give up.

One my local builder yards treat me like a part time hobbyist DIY’er so I’ve stopped going in to them. This is regardless of the fact that I’ve made an effort to learn about the materials they stock, sizes and quantities. The last time I went on i asked them to order me a drill press.. I even produced cash to show them I was serious. They re directed me to Lidl..

A lot of the shops around me don’t stock the stuff I need and 90% of my business stock is bought online because there isn’t a local company doing the stuff I need. I buy my clothes online because I can’t be arsed to go to Belfast where the branded shops use to send their cast offs.

I would have always shopped local when I worked in my local town and I could nip out and do messages. But with working from home now I really just go to the local town to buy coal, a few things from B and M then come home. 

richardhomer

No - not really.

bingefeller

Mostly butchers and the local bakeries.  

DiscoStu

Local beer, local bread, local coffee.

EricTheWeary

Teddy Grays! 

Not that I buy them often - local manufacturer and retailer of sweets. I used to go to meetings in an office building next door to their factory and you get sugary scents drifting across the car park. 


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Phil_aka_Pip

DiscoStu said:

Local beer, local bread, local coffee.

They grow coffee in your neck of the woods?

pmbomb

Sporky said:

Some. Farmers market stuff and Hog's Back Brewery  plus Silent Pool gin. 

you and me are sort-of local.

JerkMoans

underdog said:

I try to keep to local strip clubs.

Thought I recognised you

Nitefly

Sometimes (but not always) the local greengrocer; several local pubs sell locally-produced ale (Allgates, Phoenix, Bank Top, etc).

An enterprising Armenian chap has recently arrived, and prepares and sells various middle-Eastern sweet-meats and such, in a place he has painted black and yellow and named The Bee Shop, presumably because many of his products contain honey.

I can certainly vouch for his spinach cake, and baklava.

Emp_Fab

Only because it's nearer.  The nearest 'big name' supermarket is four miles up the road.  The local supermarket is overpriced, has veg that's hanging on for dear life and has a proprieter who lives in a giant house with his own helicopter.  So, yes I do buy local, but if Tescos opened somewhere nearer, I would drop the local place like a stone.