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<\/a>\"olssons\"<\/a>Olsson’s Books and Records<\/a> has shuttered their last four locations.<\/p>\n

Remember, it may be cheaper to buy online or from a big box store, but you’ll never beat the locals for personal attention and local knowledge.<\/p>\n

Local business owners are your neighbors. The same civic quality-of-life issues that matter to you matter to them.<\/p>\n

If you don’t support them with your money*, they will fail.<\/p>\n

Pardon me while I shed a few tears into my teacup…<\/p>\n

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*I am not suggesting that you spend your money unwisely. Obviously, if you can’t afford to buy a book at your local bookstore, you shouldn’t do so just to help keep them afloat. But I can live in a world without Amazon a whole lot more comfortably than I can in a world where small businesses are shuttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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