Shop Local
SOS Bucks are the Chambers way to promote shopping local and supporting our local retailers, restaurants, and service companies. The economy of our community where purchases are made benefit from the sales tax dollars spent. SOS Bucks are available for purchase at the Chamber Office in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $25 and $50. Each Chamber Buck is signed by a Chamber staff member and marked with the Chamber seal. SOS Bucks are a great gift for birthdays, anniversaries, business awards, and Christmas gifts.
- Local business owners invest in community: Local businesses are owned by people who live in this community, are less likely to leave, and are more invested in the community's future.
- In a local store, you can build a relationship. Isn't it nice to be greeted by name by the owner and be told, "oh, I just got something in that your spouse will just loveālet me show it to you!"
The owners and clerks get to know you as people, and the smart ones know how to make you feel special. - Dollars spent locally support and maintain your own community. They create jobs, they keep your downtown healthy, and they build a community that's worth living in. And surprisingly, you can often find merchandise at comparable prices from your local merchants.
Most new jobs are provided by local businesses: Small local businesses are the largest employer nationally and provide the most new jobs to local residents. - Your community is unique, and local merchants understand this. They want to give you diversity in several different small stores.
- Local merchants care about your community. They will donate to your school athletic team, support your local media outlets by purchasing advertising, and volunteer in many local nonprofit organizations to help provide better services to the community.
Participants
- Abacus Computer Solutions
- Bobe's Pizza
- Brown's Furniture
- Carle RMH East Street Boutique
- City of Olney
- Claybank Natural Foods
- Color Your World
- CVS Pharmacy-Olney
- Dairy Dee Ice Creams
- Dollar General-Olney
- Enriched Stitches
- Fulk's 1st Choice Storage & Commercial Rentals
- Glik's
- Holiday Motel & Restaurant
- IGA Olney
- Illinois Gymnastics Club
- Ivy's Cottage
- Joe's Pizza-Olney
- King's Furniture
- Mach 1
- Monical's Pizza-Olney
- Motomart
- Olde Tyme Steakhaus
- Olney Chamber of Commerce
- Olney Gazette
- Olney Skin Care and Massage
- Olney Rural King
- Olney Taekwondo
- Ophelia's Cup
- PrintForce
- Racklin Paint & Decorating
- Red Rooster
- Rent One-Olney
- Scentsy Consultant Deb Lynch
- Seams and Things
- Sears Hometown Store-Olney
- Second Blessings Thrift Store
- Sub Fast / Pizza Fast
- The Smokin' Pig
- Threads of Hope Children's Consignment
- Thrifty Home Medical
- Uptown Girls Salon ( Retail purchases only)
- Wild Rose Boutique
- Wildwoods Gallery & Framing
- Williams Brothers Pharmacy-Olney