The Thompson Chamber of Commerce is looking to have a shop local campaign all year round.

President Keith McDonald says they asked their members what they think about the idea: "For years now that we’ve been promoting Shop Local, we’ve done that at certain times of the year especially around the Christmas season but we wanted to get the survey out there to get feedback from members to see what’s important to them because we run on a limited budget for the Thompson chamber of commerce so we wanted to see if there was interest to do it more".

Their June survey revealed 91% of chamber members think the Chamber should promote a Shop Local campaign.

McDonald says they will need to get money in order to go ahead with the year round campaign.

They are also taking steps to improve customer service in Thompson. They asked members whether customer service should be improved, and 89% said yes. Another 91% think customer service training should be offered to local businesses.

McDonald says customer service is important because the front line people working at local businesses make an impression on tourists.