Shop Local: Small Business Saturday offers big boon for local stores

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On Small Business Saturday, section shops appreciated your patronage.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s a engaged play for businesses everywhere.

On Small Business Saturday, section businesses successful San Marco and crossed the country promote patrons to store mall.

According to the 2020 Small Business Development Centers, determination are much than 2.5 cardinal tiny businesses successful Florida employing 3.4 cardinal radical crossed the state.

They are large places for vacation buying arsenic well.

At the Spice and Tea Exchange successful San Marco, the employees marque customized blends and good teas. It’s a labour of love.

“There’s a batch that goes into it for sure. But erstwhile you emotion what you do, and you similar to stock the acquisition of a much flavorful beingness with others, it’s not that hard. It conscionable comes easy,” income associated Emily Hatcher said.

Like the lawsuit work astatine Beau Outfitters -- conscionable a fewer doors down.

Beau Outfitters proprietor April Dixon says lawsuit work is what separates her tiny concern isolated from large retailers. (WJXT)

Owner April Dixon said that’s what separates them from large retailers.

“We effort to spell retired of our mode to instrumentality attraction of the lawsuit and truly person them successful caput erstwhile we’re really ordering things to travel into the store,” Dixon said.

Whether it’s the vacation season, oregon immoderate different Saturday, these businesses and others, accidental they’re present for you.

“I whitethorn beryllium a tiny business, but we person a ton of ideas,” Dixon said.

Sam Griffel, store manager of Fig & Willow successful San Marco, said buying tiny not lone helps businesses but the community.

Sam Griffel, store manager of Fig & Willow successful San Marco, pointed retired determination are advantages to buying small, particularly with the proviso concatenation problems astir the country. (WJXT)

“It’s a truly tight-knit assemblage and radical really, truly attraction astir buying local,” Griffel said. “This is our biggest play of the year. Between Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, this is simply a immense chunk of our vacation sales.”

With the proviso concatenation problems astir the country, Griffel besides pointed retired determination are advantages to buying small.

“Shopping section and successful store is simply a large mode to enactment idiosyncratic section and besides cognize that you’re going to get your gifts connected time, they’re going to beryllium bully quality, and everyone wins,” Griffel said.

According to American Express, Small Business Saturday reached a grounds precocious of $19.8 cardinal successful spending successful 2020.

“We ever anticipation it’s going to beryllium amended than past year,” Griffel said. “Definitely I deliberation due to the fact that determination aren’t arsenic galore COVID restrictions this year, we volition spot much radical who consciousness much comfy coming retired to store successful idiosyncratic versus they mightiness person shopped online past year.”

Downtown Jacksonville is besides offering a Small Business Saturday QR Code Scavenger Hunt.

You download an app called Eventzee. You tin usage it astatine participating locations and person the accidental of winning a prize.

Click here for much information.

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