Business Owners Encourage Local Shopping On Small Business Saturday

“Small businesses are kind of the heart of the community”.

Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes Small Business Saturday.

“This year we are not offering a statement credit offer on Small Business Saturday”, the company said on the “Shop Small” section of its website.

Local businesses said small business Saturday was a success.

“Small businesses are very important”. Now W.O.W. Meow Inc. sells books and artwork to the community. “I encourage everyone to support the small businesses in their communities, both this Saturday and throughout the holiday season”.

Marti Milakovich, the owner of “Vintage on Venice” in Mar Vista, said she was inspired by the connections small businesses can have with customers.

It was well known that the day after Thanksgiving was the biggest shopping day of the year for chain retailers, but locally owned businesses said they needed support, too.

The smell of local restaurants cooking up menu masterpieces filled the air as shoppers looked through the many shop windows.

“It’s been really busy”.

According to the small business association more than $14 billion were spent during small business Saturday past year. Some artist we work with exclusively, you won’t find anywhere else, Kaitlin said. “We are locally owned so all of the support and everything that we can get, we want to take the chance to use it”. “We come early. We do those special things to let our customers know we really appreciate them”, says Hales.

It’s the one time of the year where shopping small makes a big difference.

He says the best thing any small business can do is, thank the people for coming in and for doing business with you.