KOSBE Bucks

The Kingsport Chamber and Kingsport Office of Small Business Development & Entrepreneurship (KOSBE) want to encourage you to keep holiday shopping local. Small businesses are the backbone of our community, providing jobs, tax dollars, contributions to our schools and non-profits, as well as the character that makes Kingsport unique. The KOSBE Bucks Card is a Kingsport-based digital gift card that makes it fun and easy to keep local spending local.

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to purchase a KOSBE Bucks Community Card to spend at a number of participating merchants. Recipients could use it for their latte in the morning, visit the salon next door for a pedicure, grab lunch with a friend, hit the boutiques, and meet up for date night happy hour – all using their KOSBE Bucks Community Card from their mobile phone.

Why Supporting Local Businesses Is So Important

Participating in this program means supporting the heart of what makes our community unique. The purchase of a KOSBE Bucks Community Card creates a pool of cash that local businesses in Kingsport can look forward to. Studies have shown that local independent retailers recirculate 47% of their revenue back into the community, while only 14% of national chains’ revenue stays in the community. More dramatically, restaurants recirculate 73% of their revenue back into the community, versus only 30% for national chains.

By supporting local businesses, more money continues circulating through the local community—this is achieved through a combination of profits paid to local business owners, wages paid to local workers, goods and services procured locally for internal use or resale, and charitable giving within the community. If you’re looking for a way to do some good or want to know how you can help the community you love, send a KOSBE Bucks Community Card! For more information or to participate as a merchant in the program, please contact Aundrea Salyer at 423-392-8801 or email asalyer@kingsportchamber.org.