Buying your daily hot drinks from a locally owned coffee shop can inject over $1,000 per person a year back into the BC economy.
Why?
Shifting will help make your community stronger and more independent. Find out how.
How?
It's easer to get started than you may think. Check our checklist!
Where?
Not so fast. To get access to Local First Finds, click the tab at top and take the pledge.
A Shift Fact...
LFFs, as we like to call them, are local businesses, products and services that people like you love and want to recommend to other Shifters.
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BURNABY—CUPE BC President Barry O’Neill took the Ten Percent Shift campaign on the road in the Kootenays this past week.
The tour held nine events in seven communities in six days, attracting hundreds of Kootenay residents to hear how making a ten percent shift in consumer spending to local first can bring... read more »
The Ten Percent Shift has retained Civic Economics, an economic analysis and strategic planning consultancy, to conduct a study of the BC retail economy to determine the potential benefits of a ten percent shift in consumer spending to local independent businesses.
Civic Economics, one of the preeminent progressive economic... read more »
Ten Percent Video
What is the Ten Percent Shift all about? And how can it work for you and your community? Find out by having a look at our video.
