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Shop local, even if we don’t

l3wis November 25, 2025 3Comments

A foot soldier sent me this STORY and said, “It is a shame they don’t practice what they preach.”;

“If I had a message for people in Sioux Falls as we go into the holiday season — take the opportunity to be intentional,” Pritchett said. “Support your local retailers, local restaurants and try to do as much as your shopping here as you can. Because these are the people that employ individuals in our community, they pay the property taxes for the buildings that they may be operating in and they really do help support the local economy in more ways than just buying online.”

While Fireball is telling us all to spend locally, the city, the finance department, him and Poops have been running this city into the ground for 7 years (this is what happens when you hire church buddies). Poops has directed millions in no-bid contracts to out-of-state vendors. Some of this stuff can’t be done locally, and shouldn’t, like internal audit (which ironically should be ALL internal, that is literally the name of the department!). But most of these contracts could have been awarded locally and thru an RFP process. Not only saving taxpayers millions but the money awarded to these companies would re-circulate in the community thru wages and consumer sales, as Fireball so cleverly has stated above.

I try to buy locally as much as possible, but it’s easier to find the Holy Grail in Sioux Falls then a bike part. I have been telling people though if you do want to eat out, always go to an immigrant restaurant. Always delicious, unique, fresh, and the best service. So yeah, shop local, wonder if Fireball will figure out how to take his own advice? Because internet sales is all that has been floating us for 7 months, something he conveniently left out of the story.