Community Savings Card offers value to customers, neighborhood groups, businesses
By Tim Hadac
Southwest Chicago Post
The Community Savings Card, which debuts this month, is a win-win-win for the greater Midway area, according to All Exterior Contractors’ Geno Randazzo, the driving force behind the new initiative.
“I want to do my part to not only encourage people to think about shopping locally, but actually go out and do it on an everyday basis,” Randazzo says. “The Community Savings Card does exactly that.”
How it works:
• Buy a Community Savings Card for $10, which opens the door to literally hundreds of dollars in discounts—good through December 31--at local restaurants, pizzerias, home maintenance and improvement, pet grooming, gift shops, limousine rentals and more.
• Midway-area businesses benefit by seeing new customers.
• Community groups that sell the cards (such as school PTOs, churches, Scout troops, veterans posts, Little Leagues and other youth athletic associations) keep 100% of everything they sell—an almost unheard-of deal for local non-profits.
Randazzo says his lightbulb moment came earlier this year.
“I’ve always supported local fundraisers for neighborhood groups, but I’ve never liked seeing them put forth so much energy to get so little in return,” he says. “Like, they get only 10 cents on the dollar or even less.
“The Community Savings Card changes all that by offering a 100% benefit for schools, churches, veterans’ groups, youth groups and others. These groups deserve a break, and that’s what we’re offering.”
Randazzo adds that the card is a way for the community to keep its dollars circulating right here at home.
“Our local businesses provide jobs for local men, women and teenagers—and they pay taxes,” he says. “Anything I can do to encourage shopping right here at home—rather than elsewhere—I’ll gladly do.”
For more details on the Community Savings Card, scan the QR code in this story or visit allexteriorcontractors.com/savings card.
