‘Shop local’ campaigns off to good start in Rock Hill, Lancaster
Rock Hill & Lancaster, SC – At the beginning of the holiday shopping season York and Lancaster county Chambers of Commerce started campaigns to encourage people to shop locally in their home towns.
The effort is an attempt to persuade people not to spend money in other cities such as Charlotte, in a way to give local communities an economic boost.
Now that the Christmas shopping season is over, Allison Love at Allison Loves Fine Jewelry in Rock Hill says in the more than 50 years her family has been running a locally owned jewelry and gift shop she’s had the best Christmas sale yet.
Part of her success this time, she says, was York County’s “Buy into it, York County” shop local campaign.
“We’ve just started making people aware of the differences that it can make to shop local,” said Love.
The Lancaster and York Chambers of Commerce say they won’t know for about three months how much, or if any of a boost the shop local campaigns gave local retailers.
