RE: Shopping at Moscow businesses

["LuJane Nisse" <lujane@lataheagle.com>]

Priscilla, I appreciate this posting so much. We have lost a lot of
excellent businesses for nothing more than lack of support. Not only in
Moscow but all over the county... the area. The smaller towns are in
distress and losing their business districts all together because folks
there travel to Moscow to shop or to Lewiston even when they can get what
they are after right in their own town, visit with friends and neighbors and
support a neighbor... it IS a no-brainer. But sure isn't happening.
Thanks again. Give a gift to a neighbor... shop LOCAL!!

LJ



-----Original Message-----
From: Priscilla Salant [mailto:psalant@moscow.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:51 AM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Shopping at Moscow businesses


Visionaries,

It's that time of year when people give me lists of things they want. My
tendency is to deal with the lists as efficiently as possible. In one case,
I found a retailer on-line that sold precisely the shirts my son had on his
list ... I was a nanosecond away from pushing the "buy now" shopping cart
button when I had another idea.  I visited a downtown store where I know
the owner.  While he didn't have those particular items in stock, he was
happy to order them, and I'd pay the same price as I would have on-line.

Bottom line for me -- personal and friendly service from a local business,
no extra cost, and a few more dollars in the downtown cash register. A no
brainer.

Thanks to Barbara Richardson and others who have worked so hard to dress up
our downtown this Christmas.  Let the holidays begin!

Priscilla Salant