Chump change, really? I just watched on the news this morning that seven out of eight families couldn't scrounge together a thousand dollars in an emergency if they needed to.
Couple that with the embarrassing amount of children who go hungry in this country each week, and fourteen dollars doesn't look so chumpy in my opinion.
Since you didn't clarify if this was chump change in the context of a day, a week, a single purchase, let's play and say you consider that chump change in the course of a week (like you patronize a local business once a week and don't mind spending the extra fourteen dollars, I mean after all, it's chump change) that would be fifty six dollars in the course of a month, extra, to shop locally.
And if you shop locally at more than one place, for the sake of argument let's say two places, that would be one hundred twelve dollars a month extra.
That makes no sense to me, at all.
I wonder if all those hungry kids would consider $112 a month for food, chump change?