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I choose to shop at a smaller grocery store. At the big box stores, I feel I need to get a sherpa to get around. If you're in the dairy section, and you forgot something in produce, it's a long haul back to the priduce section. At the story I shop at, they are also on opposite sides, but those sides are a lot closer. I do pay a little more, but I am in and out in less time. And being smaller, it is more in touch with the market in the neighborhood; there are some things that I get at my smaller store that I can't get at the warehouse stores. I buy my meat at a small meat market. I'll never buy hot dogs that were factory made and sealed in plastic who knows how long ago. After eating the hot dogs I get from this place, I can't go back. The jalapeno bratwurst is great. We buy from the Farmers Market when we can.
If you really want to support small businesses, the best way is simply to spend your money there.
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