local saturday is more important than ever in 2020
Everyone seems pretty up to speed with how badly almost every American small retail business has fared during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Don’t even get me started on the small Mom & Pop restaurants impacted by the pandemic…too often, that news is like reading the obituaries.
The chain stores are doing OK and the on-line stores are through the roof with amazing sales. I am sincerely pleased for all of them.
But the small retail stores, those that have remained open in our communities thus far (and many have closed up forever) they are about to have something amazing happen to them.
Something amazingly good or amazingly bad. The decision is up to you and me.
I fully respect that many national chains have had sales dry up and they have closed – leaving landlords and employees scrambling for new tenants and new jobs. Those situations certainly negatively impact a local economy. Such closures hurt people and communities.
But situated in an even more precarious position as we head into the critical holiday shopping period are America’s small retail businesses.
You know who they are in your city and towns and suburbs. Maybe you’ve driven by them and always wanted to go in a look around.
I am asking you to please do that and do one more thing. Buy something at that store.
Black Friday, which will also change in 2020, led to a new inititaive some years ago called #localsaturday where shoppers are encouraged to buy from LOCAL merchants the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I’m asking you to please to this…and more
Buy ALL your gifts for your family and friends this holiday season 2020 from your local small businesses.
Online will thrive for all the chains…the local stores NEED YOUR HELP TO STAY OPEN.
Think of your local purchase as being a life giving blood donation to a local neighbor deathly in need of blood.
This holiday, don’t only think of others who you want to buy a gift for…think of the business itself, the LOCAL business where you buy that gift.
Help that local business stay open and help your truly local community THRIVE.
Thanks.
