Shops deserve a Square deal (From Daily Echo)

Buy local means just that.. buy things that support your local manufacturers. Also buy from locally owned and run shops that support decent wages for local employees.

Yes support the local clockmaker especially if he sells local goods not asian - he's local & hopefully employs locals. But please support the shop that sells local clothing to keep you locally made manufacturers going.

NZ is even more damaged by cheap asian goods on shelves with out of town owners often from off-shore paying minimum wage.

Yes Buy Local but think local too and assess each foreign made item you buy.

Oh and please buy NZ Meat and Dairy and tell Mr Brown not to support hand-outs for inefficient farmers that can't pay their way. Lol..and no mad cow ever from here!!! Cheers..
PS our village of Tirau has 856 ppl and we have the biggest clock shop in the sthrn Hemi.. mostly made in USA, Germany and Switzerland..

PS Up The Saints!! even if the club ends up Irish Owned :-)

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:
Buy local means just that.. buy things that support your local manufacturers. Also buy from locally owned and run shops that support decent wages for local employees.

Yes support the local clockmaker especially if he sells local goods not asian - he's local & hopefully employs locals. But please support the shop that sells local clothing to keep you locally made manufacturers going.

NZ is even more damaged by cheap asian goods on shelves with out of town owners often from off-shore paying minimum wage.

Yes Buy Local but think local too and assess each foreign made item you buy.

Oh and please buy NZ Meat and Dairy and tell Mr Brown not to support hand-outs for inefficient farmers that can't pay their way. Lol..and no mad cow ever from here!!! Cheers..
PS our village of Tirau has 856 ppl and we have the biggest clock shop in the sthrn Hemi.. mostly made in USA, Germany and Switzerland..

PS Up The Saints!! even if the club ends up Irish Owned :-)

But New Zealand isn't local to Hampshire

Georgem wrote:

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:
Buy local means just that.. buy things that support your local manufacturers. Also buy from locally owned and run shops that support decent wages for local employees.

Yes support the local clockmaker especially if he sells local goods not asian - he's local & hopefully employs locals. But please support the shop that sells local clothing to keep you locally made manufacturers going.

NZ is even more damaged by cheap asian goods on shelves with out of town owners often from off-shore paying minimum wage.

Yes Buy Local but think local too and assess each foreign made item you buy.

Oh and please buy NZ Meat and Dairy and tell Mr Brown not to support hand-outs for inefficient farmers that can't pay their way. Lol..and no mad cow ever from here!!! Cheers..
PS our village of Tirau has 856 ppl and we have the biggest clock shop in the sthrn Hemi.. mostly made in USA, Germany and Switzerland..

PS Up The Saints!! even if the club ends up Irish Owned :-)

But New Zealand isn't local to Hampshire

I'm encouraging the campaign..all for it, but please look carefully at the wider issues. shop to support local employment, local production and local manufacturing.
Know your products, is that frozen vege you buy local or is it in fact asian picked by a 12 year old.
My point re dairy is political.. do you support a free market or do you give charity hand outs to your farmers like France and USA? I thought Britain had left those days behind. EU protectionism will back fire and not just through mad cow. Buy local meat and dairy if you know it's local, non GE and healthy..thats great but know that NZ animals are checked by vets and agg officials far more often and are completely free of GE and Mad cow.
Make choices for reasons not sentiment, I can't say fairer.

PS Looking out my window it looks like Hampshire but here it's duck shooting season, we don't give them floating duck houses ;p :)

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:

Georgem wrote:

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:
Buy local means just that.. buy things that support your local manufacturers. Also buy from locally owned and run shops that support decent wages for local employees.

Yes support the local clockmaker especially if he sells local goods not asian - he's local & hopefully employs locals. But please support the shop that sells local clothing to keep you locally made manufacturers going.

NZ is even more damaged by cheap asian goods on shelves with out of town owners often from off-shore paying minimum wage.

Yes Buy Local but think local too and assess each foreign made item you buy.

Oh and please buy NZ Meat and Dairy and tell Mr Brown not to support hand-outs for inefficient farmers that can't pay their way. Lol..and no mad cow ever from here!!! Cheers..
PS our village of Tirau has 856 ppl and we have the biggest clock shop in the sthrn Hemi.. mostly made in USA, Germany and Switzerland..

PS Up The Saints!! even if the club ends up Irish Owned :-)

But New Zealand isn't local to Hampshire

I'm encouraging the campaign..all for it, but please look carefully at the wider issues. shop to support local employment, local production and local manufacturing.
Know your products, is that frozen vege you buy local or is it in fact asian picked by a 12 year old.
My point re dairy is political.. do you support a free market or do you give charity hand outs to your farmers like France and USA? I thought Britain had left those days behind. EU protectionism will back fire and not just through mad cow. Buy local meat and dairy if you know it's local, non GE and healthy..thats great but know that NZ animals are checked by vets and agg officials far more often and are completely free of GE and Mad cow.
Make choices for reasons not sentiment, I can't say fairer.

PS Looking out my window it looks like Hampshire but here it's duck shooting season, we don't give them floating duck houses ;p :)

Isn't a free market somewhat contradictory to supporting local business? Over here we have massive unused lands for farming yet most food is bought from the US (cheaper labour) - how mad is that?
Agree your point though; support your local business seems to be the shop, not necessarily what is sold from it.

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:

Georgem wrote:

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:
Buy local means just that.. buy things that support your local manufacturers. Also buy from locally owned and run shops that support decent wages for local employees.

Yes support the local clockmaker especially if he sells local goods not asian - he's local & hopefully employs locals. But please support the shop that sells local clothing to keep you locally made manufacturers going.

NZ is even more damaged by cheap asian goods on shelves with out of town owners often from off-shore paying minimum wage.

Yes Buy Local but think local too and assess each foreign made item you buy.

Oh and please buy NZ Meat and Dairy and tell Mr Brown not to support hand-outs for inefficient farmers that can't pay their way. Lol..and no mad cow ever from here!!! Cheers..
PS our village of Tirau has 856 ppl and we have the biggest clock shop in the sthrn Hemi.. mostly made in USA, Germany and Switzerland..

PS Up The Saints!! even if the club ends up Irish Owned :-)

But New Zealand isn't local to Hampshire

I'm encouraging the campaign..all for it, but please look carefully at the wider issues. shop to support local employment, local production and local manufacturing.
Know your products, is that frozen vege you buy local or is it in fact asian picked by a 12 year old.
My point re dairy is political.. do you support a free market or do you give charity hand outs to your farmers like France and USA? I thought Britain had left those days behind. EU protectionism will back fire and not just through mad cow. Buy local meat and dairy if you know it's local, non GE and healthy..thats great but know that NZ animals are checked by vets and agg officials far more often and are completely free of GE and Mad cow.
Make choices for reasons not sentiment, I can't say fairer.

PS Looking out my window it looks like Hampshire but here it's duck shooting season, we don't give them floating duck houses ;p :)

"Was it picked by a 12 year old?" is, in fact, pure rhetoric. The truth is, we're constantly up in arms at the horror of children in third-world countries being subjected to working for a pittance, etc, etc, but really, all civilisations have to go through that phase at some point. What's the alternative? That Country X has no economy, and remains third-world? Like that idea, do you? Yes, there are young kids working in sweatshops making clothes, but they're also now getting an education now, which has not always been the case. Paid for, by those same evil corporations that employ them for a pittance. It's not so very long ago that children in the UK were working in mines, or up chimneys, or, yes, in workhouses.

Anyways, I'm sure I don't have to point out the glaring duality in you simultaneously advocating buying local produce, and encouraging the purchase of produce from halfway round the globe.

Georgem wrote:

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:

Georgem wrote:

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:
Buy local means just that.. buy things that support your local manufacturers. Also buy from locally owned and run shops that support decent wages for local employees.

Yes support the local clockmaker especially if he sells local goods not asian - he's local & hopefully employs locals. But please support the shop that sells local clothing to keep you locally made manufacturers going.

NZ is even more damaged by cheap asian goods on shelves with out of town owners often from off-shore paying minimum wage.

Yes Buy Local but think local too and assess each foreign made item you buy.

Oh and please buy NZ Meat and Dairy and tell Mr Brown not to support hand-outs for inefficient farmers that can't pay their way. Lol..and no mad cow ever from here!!! Cheers..
PS our village of Tirau has 856 ppl and we have the biggest clock shop in the sthrn Hemi.. mostly made in USA, Germany and Switzerland..

PS Up The Saints!! even if the club ends up Irish Owned :-)

But New Zealand isn't local to Hampshire

I'm encouraging the campaign..all for it, but please look carefully at the wider issues. shop to support local employment, local production and local manufacturing.
Know your products, is that frozen vege you buy local or is it in fact asian picked by a 12 year old.
My point re dairy is political.. do you support a free market or do you give charity hand outs to your farmers like France and USA? I thought Britain had left those days behind. EU protectionism will back fire and not just through mad cow. Buy local meat and dairy if you know it's local, non GE and healthy..thats great but know that NZ animals are checked by vets and agg officials far more often and are completely free of GE and Mad cow.
Make choices for reasons not sentiment, I can't say fairer.

PS Looking out my window it looks like Hampshire but here it's duck shooting season, we don't give them floating duck houses ;p :)

"Was it picked by a 12 year old?" is, in fact, pure rhetoric. The truth is, we're constantly up in arms at the horror of children in third-world countries being subjected to working for a pittance, etc, etc, but really, all civilisations have to go through that phase at some point. What's the alternative? That Country X has no economy, and remains third-world? Like that idea, do you? Yes, there are young kids working in sweatshops making clothes, but they're also now getting an education now, which has not always been the case. Paid for, by those same evil corporations that employ them for a pittance. It's not so very long ago that children in the UK were working in mines, or up chimneys, or, yes, in workhouses.

Anyways, I'm sure I don't have to point out the glaring duality in you simultaneously advocating buying local produce, and encouraging the purchase of produce from halfway round the globe.

Rhetoric? Really?
So your answer to get Britain out of it's recession is to put children back up the chimney and into sweatshops so they can pay tax which you give to farmers who can't run their farmers in a business like fashion and compete on a level playing field? Tell me why NZ can sell produce on the world market at a profit and Britain can't without a hand out? What happened to Made in Britain pride.
You buy NZ because we've been your back garden for many years through wars depression and now recession. Subsidising EU produce will bump up your prices in the supermarkets like you won't believe... that's a fact that's been proven time and time again. We are competitive here because our businesses work hard, the unions can't choke development and workers do just that...work.
If you look at India you'll find it is doing a fine job at combating child labour and is trading brilliantly by up-schooling and developing it's technology manufacturing industry.
Another thing to remember is that when you listen to claptrap from the likes of Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay about carbon miles is that they are paid by business to promote local and the figures they use are based on air freight. Most of the NZ produce in your markets has travelled by sea with a lower carbon footprint than the Euro stuff flown over the channel and most scientists are now saying global warming is rot re carbon emissions as carbon dioxide is in fact a good thing for the atmosphere.. Read "Air Con" by Ian Wishart

A straw man, followed by yet another advert by the New Zealand Marketing Board. Excellent work

Georgem wrote:
A straw man, followed by yet another advert by the New Zealand Marketing Board. Excellent work

I work in hospitality in a small rural town but have worked in rural retail for a long time. I know the importance of supporting truly local product. Product ignorance leads to silly consumerism.. I only say read up and check before you blindly buy. I assure you I front no marketing for NZ. I live here but home is still So'ton and I care for both. I have faith ppl aren't stupid and can make their own informed purchasing decisions. Kia Ora