Happily, more and more consumers are supporting the notion that locally-owned, independent specialty retail shops are important to a community's vitality and future.
This perspective is expressed magnificantly in yesterday's Wall Street Journal column, "In Praise Of Shopkeepers," by Joseph Epstein. We highly recommend it to shoppers, store owners, local governmental officials, and well, everyone!
Of locally-based specialty shops, Epstein says, "The element of unpredictability, of delightful surprise, should be part of the adventure of shopping -- an element precluded by the standard stores never owned by anyone on the premises." At My Favorite Toys and www.MyFavToys.com, we certainly strive to offer our customers such "delightful surprises" that can't be found in the warehouse big box stores.
Epstein says, "Running a good shop is a service to one's community, of much greater value, in my view, than the work of two hundred social workers, five hundred psychotherapists, and a thousand second-rate poets -- and more honorable than the efforts of the vast majority of the members of Congress. A nation of shopkeepers..... sounds more and more like an ideal to which a healthy country ought to aspire."
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