Buy it Local is a pioneer in the Community Shopping Card market with Buy it*Cards. We are creating new ways to use  technology to benefit community economic development goals.    what is a community shopping card?  goal:  to benefit community economic development and to steer consumer sales to designated geographies, revitalization zones or other corridors of community interest how it works: community card systems enable one (1) card to be used across multi merchant locations  uses: possibilities are endless-including city / corridor / zone gift or shopping cards, employer incentives/reward programs, university "off campus" cards tourist/visitor cards, groups and conventions, more program management: program operators have the goal to maximize the benefit of the network on behalf of the community's economy, encouraging multiple applications over the same network to benefit merchants and the local economy	Community  shopping   cards are   private label  stored value  card systems  for local /  regional  markets Benefit:   connecting   consumers  (the public)   with tangible,   measurable   ways to   support local  merchants  and economic  goals