Merchant Center
Merchant Program
When locally owned businesses thrive…our community thrives too. The Locals Care program is designed to encourage consumers to shop at locally owned businesses by providing two powerful incentives:
- Consumers earn rewards (Community Points) for the purchases they make at
locally owned Locals Care businesses.
- Every qualifying Locals Care purchase also earns a donation to the participating nonprofit organization that the cardholder selects.
Consumers benefit, nonprofit organizations benefit, and so do you!
As a highly effective customer loyalty tool, the Locals Care program boosts sales from both new and existing customers. Cardholders’ Community Points can only be redeemed at participating Locals Care businesses.
Locals Care shows your business “gives back” to our community by helping to support local nonprofits.
Five of the many important reasons to choose to shop with Locally Owned, Independent Businesses- Keep our City Extraordinary. Where we choose to shop, dine and have fun — is what supports the unique quality of our community. One-of-a-kind businesses are an important part of the special and distinctive character of our community.
- Support our Local Economy. Several studies have shown that when you buy from an independent, locally owned business, rather than a nationally owned business, significantly more of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and local farms — continuing to re-circulate those dollars and strengthen the economic base of our community.
- Support Community Groups. Community nonprofit organizations receive an average of 250% more support from smaller business owners than they do from large businesses.
- Create more Good Jobs. Small local businesses are the largest employer nationally and in every community; local businesses provide the most jobs to community residents.
- Strengthen our Community. Support the people who own local businesses, live in this community and are LOCALS who CARE about our community"s future!