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From personal experience. I am willing to assign a higher value to products made by local and/or small businesses, even if it doesn't otherwise make any practical sense. But it is a very conscientious moral judgement on my end, so I don't expect most people to behave this way... and I have a limit too, +100% is probably too much.
Although I guess the benefit of being a "small" business is that you also don't need as many customers... There are also some types of small businesses that are competitive: I suppose most ethnic food stores or your local market stall won't struggle with competing on price.
Maybe this depends on the area? I don't know if it is just me, but it seems to me that these days small businesses do better in larger cities... maybe larger cities have more "ethical shoppers"
Some local retail makes sense, and some does not. For example, my life would really suffer if the hardware store down the street closed up. I like being able to get a paint match home in under 30 minutes. And sometimes I spend half an hour looking for the exact bolt I need, checking it against the other part it’s going to screw into: you just can’t do all that on Amazon and the big box motherfuckers are further away and far less convenient.
Once I messed up and superglued a wrench into my palm. I couldn’t wait for fucking Prime Overnight. I went down to the hardware store and asked if they stocked ca glue debonder. They didn’t, but the store manager got out some acetone and sat there with me, slowly pouring it on as I peeled the wrench out. He wouldn’t even take my money at the end. You just cannot get that kind of service from Lowe’s or Amazon. I now buy every single thing I possibly can there, to help ensure they stay around. I drag my kids anytime I need to go there, and they’re allowed to raid the candy rack at the checkout.