(NAPSI)—Some maintain that “all politics is local” and others claim that there are multiple benefits to eating locally grown food and patronizing local merchants.
Now an initiative is applying that same point of view to banking. If a consumer is going to make an effort to shop locally, supporters of the initiative ask, “why not bank locally?”
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