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Local Stores Profit from Small Business Saturday
Channel 2 NewsThere was nothing small about this weekend’s Small Business Saturday. Sandwiched in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, U.S consumers shopped small this year spending billions of dollars in keeping their money local. About 500,000 small...Tags: Cyber Monday, Sales, Business, Small Businesses, Holidays
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Important Christmas Shipping Deadlines to Remember
Channel 2 NewsCyber Monday sales online were expected to kick off record numbers for holiday gifts being shipped across the country along with Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. The United States Postal Service, Fed-Ex, and UPS said the volume of packages...Tags: Cyber Monday, U.S. Postal Service, Government Postal Delivery, Black Friday (shopping), Christmas
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Small Business Saturday A New Shopping Tradition
Small Business Saturday drew Alaska shoppers to locally-owned stores on Saturday, answering the call to shop small and local. While ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Cyber Monday’ get most of the publicity, ‘Small Business Saturday’...
Tags: Cyber Monday, Black Friday (shopping), Business, Small Businesses
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Survey: Businesses prefer regional buy-local campaign
TidewaterBizThe Retail Alliance is moving forward with the development of a buy-local campaign after most of the businesses it surveyed wanted to move forward on the project. Of the 50 businesses surveyed, 74 percent wanted to continue developing a campaign and...Tags: Sales, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Business, Politics, Elections
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Small toy shops expect bright holiday
Just as Tom and Claudia Towles were opening their second Baltimore toy shop four years ago, the recession hit. The owners of aMuse Toys decided to cut back — not on staff or selling space — but on the number of manufacturers whose products...
Tags: Hampden, Ellicott City, Yasmin (drug), Walmart, Toys "R" Us, Inc.
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Obama adviser hits South Side shops
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama who grew up in Chicago, visited two South Side stores Saturday afternoon as part of a nationwide effort to support small businesses during the holiday shopping season. Jarrett stopped by...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Kenwood, Hyde Park, Business, Small Businesses
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Hinsdale merchants still in the market for holiday shoppers
Spotlights searched the evening sky in Hinsdale, possibly looking for that red-suited man who appeared on time and as expected at the village's annual Christmas Walk, an event that kicks off the holiday season. The spotlights, however, weren't going...
Tags: Business, Small Businesses, Holidays, Religious Festivals
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Newly hired Hagerstown official to focus on current, future health of downtown
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comThe struggles of operating a successful business in downtown Hagerstown are not a new theme. Numerous longtime businesses have left City Center over the past few years, either for greener pastures outside the downtown or because they could not survive....Tags: Washington, DC, Business, Economic Policy
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Consumer spending? Way too much
Pretzels, tattoos, and gambling can save the U.S. economy. In "By the Numbers: How Americans Spend Their Money," Lucas Reilly reports that in 2011, Americans spent trillions shopping for all sorts of sine qua nons: $550 million on pretzels, $96 billion on...Tags: Cyber Monday, Economic Indicator, Politics, Government, Tattoo Removal
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The Crowd: Puttin' on the Ritz for Chapman
The classy Christmas at the Ritz holiday luncheon Saturday benefiting Chapman University attracted a sold-out crowd, raising nearly $190,000. The 26th annual celebration is produced by the Women of Chapman support group, this season chaired by the...
Tags: Cyber Monday, Entertainment Events, Richard Dreyfuss, Arts and Culture, Education
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Coming up dry in search for sense in Sandy aid denial
Trying to make sense of the Obama administration denying federal relief to Maryland for the flooding and other damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, and I'm coming up dry. No one besides maybe Grover Norquist would have beefed had Maryland picked up a few...Tags: Ellicott City, Mitt Romney, Howard County, Politics, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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On parking tickets, speeding tickets and O'Malley's politics
Nobody asked me but ... if one is urged to support small retailers during the holiday shopping season, one might expect the municipalities in which they are located to take a holiday on parking tickets. Consider what happened to Debbie Bakalich when she...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Andrew Cuomo, Executive Branch, Death Penalty, Democratic Governors Association
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