The two companies that we were using still that were local were a safety supplies company and a janitorial supplies company. Both of which were higher priced than any of their competitors online. In fact they are about thirty percent higher for everything and if it not for the fact that they are locally owned and we have used them for about ten years, I would have made sure that we switched years ago.

The past two years have been especially hard on locally owned businesses and we have lost several other providers and had no choice but to go with some bigger online companies. I truthfully thought that we might find out that either the safety supplies or janitorial supplies companies would be closing soon too since just about everyone else in town has decided to switch to cheaper providers. I am not sure how they are lasting, with their client base being cut down and the economy still in a slump, but they are.

I will use the local guys while they are still in business and not look any further into the online companies no matter how much money that I could save by switching to a bigger company that can pass on bulk rate prices to their clients.