Outpost Natural Foods

For every $100 you spend locally, be it your locally owned co-op, farmers market, or small business, $68 is retained in the local community. Compare that to spending the same amount at a chain supermarket or regional store where only $13 stays at home. By keeping your dollars close to home, you help to ensure that your community remains financially independent and original.

To make it easy for everyone to keep close to home, we’ve introduced our Local Regional Favorite signs in every department at Outpost! By supporting our state and our neighbors, we’re ensuring that neighboring farms and businesses are here to stay.

What is Local and Regional?

Local

Wisconsin

Regional

Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana

Why Support Local?

Improve your health

Foods start to lose flavor and nutritional value as soon as they’re harvested. Eating foods grown closer to home means they’ve traveled a shorter distance and arrived on our doorstep chock full of healthy nutrients.

Savor the flavor

Simply put, local foods taste better because they’re fresher.

Support our local economy

When we purchase local and regional products or shop at locally owned businesses, more of the money stays right here in our community.

Save the environment

It’s no secret that it takes a lot of fossil fuel to ship a tomato across the country. Shopping regionally decreases energy use, period.

Build relationships

Knowing where our food comes from enriches our mealtime experience and help to develop relationships with the people that grow our food and make the things we eat.