If we all shop online all the time then our local retailers will disappear and we will all be the poorer. I think that desire to shop local is something that will endure. “It helped people to reconnect with their local communities and even after crisis lifts, even after people might take a little step back, I believe that connection with local retailers will endure. Many people were starved of human contact during the lockdown and the small interactions with local retailers became a lifeline and those local retailers deserve to be rewarded for that as things get back to normal. Buy local and try and buy Irish, if not buy European.”– Justin Leonard“I’ve tried to [shop local].

Source: The Irish Times June 21, 2020 22:52 UTC