The State of Michigan has been promoting buying Michigan-made foodstuffs as being better for the State economy. This got me thinking, how can we use this to better support local providers of foodstuffs or other products? I know sugar beets and corn support a large chunk of the thumb and the Saginaw Valley's economies. Can we find closer things?
By buying local, we can help support the companies that support jobs in our area. We should try to list as many of these local providers as we can. For this scenario, I would like to limit this just to the stuff you can buy at your local grocery. Now I know there is a lot of other things out there we can support such as diners or car companies that provide jobs locally.
Please try to list as many as you can, I'd like to compile these and use it for grocery shopping. Local brands keep more dollars locally. I am not interested in say Pepsi made at the giant Pepsi plant on the East Side because a lot of those dollars leave our area. Yes Pepsi provides jobs, but there is still some leakage of dollars to elsewhere.
I'll start of with a few of my own:
Gurnsey Dairy
Better Made Potato Chips
Sanders/Morely candy
Garden Fresh Salsa and Chips
Faygo
Shatila
The Irish Baker
hmmm no wonder michigan has so many fat people! somebody post some better for you stuff!
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