| *Your local
business produces income, jobs, and tax receipts for your local
community. Buying across borders sends the profits and duties
elsewhere.* *In turn, your
support of your local business helps them to utilize other local
services, such as ad agencies, banks, office supply companies, and
computer service providers.*
*Your local business is more
accountable to your local community and is more likely to
donate time and money to nonprofits that directly benefit you and
your neighbors.*
*Supporting your local business is
good for the environment, because it cuts down on fuel consumption
and packaging materials. Even though the origin of Thirsties products
is always the same, it takes a lot less resources for to ship one
large box across borders to your local retailer than for the goods to
be sent in small doses to your doorstep from a far away source.*
*Shipping across borders can be
risky. Depending on the carrier, a tracking number is not
always available for your goods when shipping internationally.
If goods go missing, there is little that can be done to try and trace
your missing parcel.*
*After paying shipping costs and
duties, the end price in purchasing your cloth diapers may not be
much less and may even be more money, in comparison to
buying local. Research the
whole cost and you may be surprised at how much you are actually
paying by not buying locally.*
*If you purchase abroad and then
need to return your product(s) for any reason, shipping them back
across borders would pretty much cancel out any potential refund or
credit on your return.*
*If you find you need support in
using your cloth diapers, it will be much easier to pick-up the
phone and call your local business (from whom you made your original
purchase) rather than to try and get support across borders and deal
with long distance phone charges, time zone changes, and/or language
barriers.*
We
truly appreciate your choice in selecting Thirsties cloth diapers!
We are flattered and humbled by our international growth and love the
thought of Thirsties cloth diapers on the bums of babies all over the
world! We hope to grow as sustainably as possible and this in
part can be achieved in your sourcing your Thirsties products more
local. Thank you for your help!
Link to Retailer List |
At
Thirsties, we encourage you to purchase locally whenever possible.
If Thirsties are available by a retailer in your country, region, or
city, we ask that you please consider supporting these local business
owners first. 