Newmarket program lets you keep more cash in your pocket and help merchants during slow shopping season

Get a 25% bonus when you buy Visa gift cards good at about 40 local businesses

Yorkregion.com
Feb. 23, 2023
Lisa Queen

You can keep more money in your pocket and show local merchants some love through a Town of Newmarket program.

The Choose Local: Buy More, Get More campaign provides a 25 per cent bonus when you buy Visa gift cards through the Hello Network for about 40 Newmarket businesses.

The campaign was created during the pandemic to provide additional support to Newmarket businesses as they faced various challenges and uncertainties throughout COVID-19.

As the pandemic stabilizes, it is equally important to continue to choose local, love local, the town said in a statement.

The Buy More, Get More program is launching during what is typically considered an off-peak shopping season to try to encourage spending during a time of year that is traditionally slow for many businesses.

“Thank you, Newmarket, for the constant support you have shown for our business community over the past two plus years through some extremely challenging times,” Mayor John Taylor said. “Let’s all continue to collectively choose local with this amazing new Buy More, Get More program, which not only helps to support our local businesses, it also stretches your dollar 25 per cent further, a perk that I’m sure we can all appreciate right now with the cost of everything around us on the rise.”

How it works:

• Visit the Choose Local page at www.newmarket.ca and click on “buy cash cards” to purchase a Visa cash card that can be used at about 40 local shops and restaurants. When you purchase the card, you will receive a 25 per cent bonus (up to a $200 maximum purchase). For example, if you purchase a $100 Visa cash card, you will receive $125 value on the card.
• After purchasing online, you will receive the card in the mail within five to seven days.

As a gift-back to the community and to spread some additional love and joy, the town will also be distributing 100 gift cards worth $25 each for local businesses at town events, town facilities and via social media over the next month.