If you still need to finish out that Christmas shopping list, there are plenty of local businesses with just the right items to make the special people in your life quite happy.
A few of them have items readily available on Shop Batavia, such as:
- Roxy's Music
- Adam Miller Toys and Bicycles
- Charle's Mens Shop
- Wendy Wood's Custom Design
- En Garde
- Valle Jewelers
- Bruggie's
Most readers know that a big motivation behind what we do at The Batavian is promote our local community. We believe that communities that are filled with volunteers, people who make a personal investment in their community and -- just as important -- shop locally, help improve their community and create a community that thrives.
That's always been a part of our goal at The Batavian, and Shop Batavia helps us focus that aim.
According to NPR, this breed of localism is a growing trend. Here's the article, which unfortunately promotes the very un-local Groupon and Living Social instead of mentioning the more than 100 local online news sites (similar to The Batavian), which truly are part of the localism trend.
Whether you use Shop Batavia or The Batavian to shop local, just remember, for the sake of the health of our community, shop local first.
