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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by mseebach on Friday November 24, 2017 @03:08PM (#15772746)
If you're buying a better product for a price you're considering fair, you're not meaningfully "buying local" - the product you prefer just happens to be locally produced (and possibly can only be locally produced).

The kind of buying local that you need campaigns to encourage people to do, is generally either more expensive or poorer quality than the non-local alternative.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by Nomentatus on Saturday November 25, 2017 @12:03AM (#15774530)
Better is the whole point of buying local - the can't buy traditional varieties remotely because they don't ship well. Of course you COULD buy shabby shipping varieties locally, but that was never what Alice was about, and it would be a silly thing to do.
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