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follow us on how do you support small businesses? costco members respond to our poll posted to costco's social media businesses to be used as prizes for fundraisers alison billings lyle beaugard don't support the small businesses you will lose them @ddoherty34 it's as easy as supporting them buying their product @voulu_comms we prefer to shop locally whenever stores invaluable for both keeping us sale exercise walking downtown carol greenwood brister costco carries irma lazer we almost exclusively eat at local non-chain restaurants hannah berry having my own small business where from the other small businesses that are paul phillips cristina labayen my wife and i buy most of the meat we consume from a local family farm markus fuchs djd member poll according to innovation science and economic development small busines- ses with fewer than 99 emplo- yees make up 97.9% of all businesses in canada small but mighty these stats from ised show that small businesses make up a big part of the country's economic prosperity • there are over 1 million small businesses in canada small businesses are responsible for more than jobs in canada more than half of canada's small businesses are concen- trated in ontario and quebec companies with 1 to largest share of small- business employment businesses owned equally by men and women have the highest survival rates • the average contribution of small businesses to canada's gross domestic product was 38.1% watch for the next poll costcocanada