When a national processor blindsided Ohio outdoor retailer Roads Rivers and Trails with surprise rate hikes, the owners interviewed replacement after replacement, salt in the wound, every call. Then they opened the B Corp directory and found Giv Local, a processor that donates 20% of its revenue to causes its merchants choose. A "chain of do-good events" followed, and with thousands of Certified B Corps offering everything from processing to banking to retail, any business can forge the next link without spending an extra dollar.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- When the national processor serving Roads Rivers and Trails (RRT) — Milford, Ohio's independent specialty outdoor retailer — raised its rates without warning, owners Bryan Wolf and Emily White started the search every small business dreads. They spoke with processor after processor. Each conversation poured salt on the wound: the same opaque contracts, the same disappearing service, the same industry that treats small businesses as accounts to be extracted.
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