4 BIG REASONS TO KEEP YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR HEART IS
1. Small businesses offer better customer service. With Gerhard's, you're family. We have lived and operated in Philadelphia for over 70 years so we know our customers like we know our own families. Our advantage over larger retailers is being able to provide more personable, hands-on, and memorable customer service.
2. Small businesses impact local economy is a big way! Small businesses create jobs for local, hardworking people like yourself. The more you shop with us or at any of our local store, the greater the potential for jobs to be provided.
3. Small businesses create a sense of community. Picture your neighborhood without small, local businesses. Salons, coffee shops, clothing stores, auto repair shops, pet stores...non-existent. How empty our little communities would be!
4. Small businesses give back much more! Taxes paid by local businesses go back into the neighborhoods they are located in. When you shop with big box stores, your money doesn't benefit you or your neighbors. Think of how your taxes help support important causes like schools & playgrounds, roads and parks and even our firefighters. Shopping local matters!