Dedin said the holiday season can be especially hard on small-business owners, so getting that support meant a lot.
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28, downtown Menomonie will once again be participating in Small Business Saturday. “Small Business Saturday is a great time to check them out, pick up holiday gifts and support the shop small trend”.
Numerous studies have shown the benefits of spending with locally owned businesses instead of their chain-store competitors. Local shops typically invest far more into their community by using local vendors, employing local people and keeping their profits close to home instead of shipping them to an out-of-town headquarters. That’s right, our local small business owners. Small businesses are also adopting a new workplace culture, with 47 percent offering telecommuting options and a few non-traditional perks like nap pods and game rooms (20 percent) or pet-friendly work environments (11 percent). “I think it’s important because small businesses are the backbone of America”.
Area business owners gathered Thursday for coffee at Nichole’s Fine Pastry to join Mayor Tim Mahoney, who proclaimed November 28 as Small Business Saturday.
She said she’s done the math for Great Bend and it does add up. “Because you live here you want your community to stay attractive”.
Created five years ago in 2010, Small Business Saturday was developed as a way to support local independently owned businesses and provide an alternative to “Black Friday”, the busiest shopping day of the year. “Small businesses and entrepreneurs create jobs and spur innovation”. Confidence in the local, national and global economies rose as well, with 62 percent of the 1,001 American small business owners surveyed expressing optimism for their local economies-a 12 percentage point rise year over year. By 2012, 73.9 million people went out to shop at small businesses, according to AmEx.
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Small Business Saturday is entering its sixth year nationally and in Ticonderoga, continuing to grow annually. Or you can check out any of the hundreds of other small, locally-owned businesses in town.
