Menlo Park joins Choose Local San Mateo County program

Published on April 25, 2022

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Small businesses are the foundation of a thriving community. But COVID-19 has decimated small businesses, causing enormous hardship on small business owners who already operate on razor thin margins, and many of which are immigrant-, minority- and women-owned businesses. 

To support small businesses in these critical times, the County of San Mateo, alongside City and business partners, launched Choose Local San Mateo County, a mobile app that enables shoppers to earn rewards automatically at hundreds of participating local businesses, which can be redeemed as cash discounts at select businesses. 

  1. Users can download the free Choose Local San Mateo County App from Google Play or the Apple Store and securely link your credit cards, debit cards, or prepaid debit cards to your account. The first 700 users to download and link a card will receive 10 bonus SMC Points!
  2. Users can join reward offers and start shopping and dining locally, earning SMC Points automatically through qualifying purchases made with your linked cards at local businesses.
  3. Users can redeem SMC Points for cash discounts at redeeming local businesses. Each SMC Point is worth $1.
  4. Users can encourage their favorite businesses to join Choose Local San Mateo County.

Already, nearly 400 businesses are participating in Choose Local San Mateo County, including: restaurants, cafes, spas, boutiques, yoga studios, dry cleaners and more. With more businesses joining daily, you can encourage your favorite establishments to join this innovative program.

All rewards are reimbursed by the San Mateo County through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding at no cost to the small businesses or consumers.

Choosing Local will help small businesses on their path towards recovery due to hardships from the pandemic, and the Choose Local San Mateo County app makes it easy to support these businesses.

Learn more at ChooseLocalSMC.com. The City of Menlo Park encourages residents and businesses to sign up and use the Choose Local San Mateo County app.

 

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