Now you can use EverythingYakima.com’s Shopping Guide to help save time, energy, and money!  You’ll feel great about spending your dollars with local merchants, you’ll be helping to strengthen Yakima’s economy, and you’ll have fun discovering great local shops, restaurants, and businesses.

In this day and age, consumers are doing more of their shopping online, and not just for books, music, or on Ebay.  Now, you can even purchase groceries online and have them delivered to your door!  Sure, online shopping is convenient – almost too convenient.  When we do go out to shop, we almost always gravitate toward convenience again, favoring larger stores that are clustered together in huge shopping centers.

Life moves so fast, and many of us find that we’ve lost that feeling of connection to our community.  One way to repair and restore those connections is to make it a point to shop local whenever possible.  This strengthens our local economy and helps our whole community grow and thrive!

But who has time to buy everything at the local corner store anymore?  I confess, I shop online, and at “big box stores”, too.  Sometimes, it’s the only way to go.  But I also enjoy scouting out local merchants who go out of their way to provide me with service, quality, and a wonderful shopping experience.  EverythingYakima.com will help you decide where to spend your valuable time with our Yakima Valley Shopping Guide and outstanding local merchant spotlights.

Don’t forget to check out the Free Classifieds section too, or post an ad of your own.  Or, ask a question about local stores, or where to find something, on the YAKboard Forum.

And remember, you can review and rate your favorite businesses in our Business Directory.  This helps keep businesses accountable to their customers, and helps other consumers discover the best places to shop in the Yakima Valley.

Each of the links below will take you to an article featuring a shopping center or geographical are in Yakima.  You'll find a list of the stores, restaurants, and businesses at each location, and a link to that business's listing in the Directory.

Shop local, sell local, speak local with EverythingYakima.com!