If you're not happy with that, you can go to the big Borders store, in Syracuse. This effect will percolate through the community. Ellen, at Borealis, hires local professionals, lawyers, accountants, bankers, etc., to help her with her business. Borders pays people in other communities for these needs. Ellen spends her profits locally.
Borders wires the money out of town, daily.
When you spend a dollar at a locally owned business, an average of 60 cents is recycled in the local economy. Lansing is our neighbor. We shop with them, work with them, play with them. We should not run a race with our neighbors to determine which of us can pave green fields faster. If you are looking for an enemy, look at the corporate giants our politicians are courting.