Local Loyalties® is a buying club that looks to connect consumers and local merchants with savings. The goal is to help consumers save money with special deals and offers, help small locally-owned businesses keep their doors open in this tough economy with FREE marketing, and help the community by giving a portion of each membership sold back to local municipalities, school programs and charitable organizations. Local Loyalties® is all about Locals Supporting Locals. There is a movement going on across America--a shift in the way consumers are thinking about how and where they spend their money. While China's economy has consistently grown by 9% year after year...our own economy has suffered significantly. America was built on small businesses, but somewhere we strayed. Our desire to get things more conveniently, cheaper, and faster has replaced the core relationships and community strength that are forged in many small businesses. It's time to get a little bit of that back. It's time to start driving more money back into our own local economy. Did you know that studies show for every dollar you spend in a local store $.73 stays in the local community while only $.43 stays when you go spend that money in a large chain? That's a pretty big difference. Wouldn't you like to start rebuilding your own back yard? We can. All we have to do is shift the way we spend a little. We can if we just think LOCAL FIRST. Studies have shown that when we shift our spe