Thank you for your interest in supporting small business and local prosperity!
We are a community of people who see the tremendous value in supporting small business owners. Why? Owners who live locally have a much greater awareness of the needs and issues in the area of their business because they interact with it regularly both with their customers and also by being a customer themselves. Their prosperity depends on the prosperity of their customers. The more transactions that occur locally the more vibrant and prosperous a community becomes. Think of it like “prosperity recycling”.
Click here for more good reasons to support local.Why would a business be willing to lower the price of something when they receive a Community Discount Card?
This is no-risk, free advertising. Businesses are always looking to increase traffic to their business by new and repeat customers. By accepting a card and lowering the prices on an item or service they are sending a clear message to our community that they really want our support! Many of us are making a point to seek out community-minded businesses and want a tangible way to do that. Because these cards are unlikely to be accepted by big box stores, we can be sure that our purchases will have a “recycle prosperity” effect! To make this even more effective, customers can choose to pay cash wherever possible, which also reduces credit and debit card fees, and accept the Community Discount Card instead of a $5 portion of their change.
Businesses may also choose to offer a Discount Card as an incentive to customers for larger purchases above a certain amount or as an incentive for them to come back again. Another way is for employees to receive these as a reward for good work at that business.
Businesses can choose to accept any number of Discount Cards and thereby lower the price of a good or service in $5 increments. Each discount card a business accepts adds a greater incentive for new and repeat customers to change their shopping preferences by coming to their community-minded business over other businesses who choose not to accept the Community Discount Card.
Do you have more Community Discount Cards than you need? Please contact us and we will keep them cycling through our community at no risk to you.
Did a new business accept one from you? Have you offered a card and a business did not accept it? Let us know and we'll talk to them about other benefits of being part of our community.
Does the idea and practice of buying local appeal to you?
Please contact us at: info@communitydiscountcard.ca
Current businesses accepting the Community Discount Card
262 Christie Street (at Dupont), Toronto, ON, M6G 3C1
https://www.crossroadskafe.com
Krishna Deva, Handyman, repair and construction services, GTA area and beyond!
1-416-995-1353
Custom catering and meal prep.
MealsFromNancy@gmail.com
1-416-822-0724
3785 Lake Shore Blvd. W, Etobicoke, ON, M8W 1R1
info@fairgroundscoffee.ca
1-416-251-2233
https://fairgroundscoffee.ca
Healing Journey Coach
Specializing in Detoxification & Nutrition
Your first 25 Minute Appointment is FREE!
sylviebalance@gmail.com
1-416-568-2360
Country Bistro
All Day Breakfast, plus Lunch & Dinner Menus
Dining, Events & Catering
531 Byrne Drive #B2, Barrie, ON, L4N 9P7
1-705-735-4358
| Monday – Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM – 8 PM | 8:30 AM – 4 PM |
Food preservation done the right way!
- No upfront equipment expense, no learning curve
- Prepping/Emergency long-term food storage
- 97% of original nutritional value 25-40 years later
- Save on food costs by buying in-season bushel or half a beef, etc...
- Save freezer space
- Reduce food prep time
- Save needless trips to the store, freeze dried foods are as healthy as fresh
1-416-564-6615
Providing a range of Products and Services, Specializing in Postpartum Rites
Using traditonal medicines and nourishing foods to facilitate healing at the individual and community level
https://sacredrites.my.canva.site/
sisterherb79@gmail.com
1-905-741-1976
Aniket Khera (owner/son & work w. Silver)
428 George St. N., Peterborough, ON, K9H 3R5
indiangrocery.bhojan@gmail.com
1-705-750-0505
427 George St. N., Peterborough, ON, K9H 3R4
bhojan.indiancuisine@gmail.com
1-705-750-0007
Chakib Hammoud (owner)
406 1/2 George St. N., Peterborough, ON, K9H 3R5
info@earthfood.ca
1-705-740-2313
3076 Dundas St. W. Toronto, ON, M6P 1Z8
https://www.vengacucina.ca/
info@vengacucina.ca
1-416-766-3841
Cell phone store - we have all the latest products for cell phones, cases, pouches, cell phone accessories and much more.
Gerrard Square Mall, 1000 Gerrard Street E, Toronto, ON, M4M 3G6
https://www.gerrardsquare.com/stores/gerrardsquare-gerrard-square-cellular-x
1-416-465-9282
| Monday – Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| 10 AM – 9 PM | 9 AM – 6 PM | 11 AM – 6 PM |
Chef Jagger Gordon is showing Canada that we can help to end hunger by utilizing the 53% of all food that ends up in landfills and putting it onto the tables of the food insecure in our country.
Our mission is to make a difference in the lives of our fellow Canadians who are in need of assistance in securing nutritious food and a regular balanced diet.
2770 Dundas St. W., Unit A, Toronto, ON, M6P 1Y3
https://feeditforward.ca/
info@feeditforward.ca
| Monday – Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|
| 11 AM – 6 PM | 11 AM – 3 PM |
Why should you support locally owned businesses?
The following list comes from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (www.ilsr.org), a national nonprofit organization working to strengthen independent businesses and local economies.-
1. Local Character and Prosperity
In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character have an economic advantage. -
2. Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes. -
3. Local Decision-Making
Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions. -
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community. -
5. Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do. -
6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class. -
7. Public Benefits and Costs
Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls. -
8. Environmental Sustainability
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which, in turn, are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution. -
9. Competition
A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term. -
10. Product Diversity
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
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Unlike big box stores, who often get tax breaks and other incentives from local governments, small businesses pay a higher percentage in local taxes which are then used to fund community activities, and projects which benefit everyone locally.
Become a Participating Merchant
Step 1. Email
info@communitydiscountcard.ca
to signup your business
Step 2.
Print this image
to display at your location
If you would like a free static cling sticker like this one for your
business' window or for your car window please email us at
info@communitydiscountcard.ca