Thursday, November 23, 2017

Big plans for Small Business Saturday


With Black Friday here, shopping is on the minds of many. But don’t forget about Small Business Saturday. This special holiday lands on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 25, 2017) and the message is simple: shop local.


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Vermont’s small businesses face an Amazon problem

Stacy Mitchell has seen all the headlines: Take
“Vermont Last State in America to Get a Walmart.”
Or
“The Only State Capital Without a McDonald’s.”
Or
“Towns Have an Image, and They Say Dollar Stores Aren’t Part of It.”

“Vermont,” she says, “has more small businesses per capita and the least big-box square footage of any state in the country.”

But the co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance says that for all the pushback against chain competition, Vermonters aren’t seeing or talking about a threat of more amazonian proportions.

Make that Amazon.com proportions.

“Vermont is perhaps the only place one can point to for not allowing companies to overwhelm the local economy,” she says, “but Amazon is having a similar effect, and it’s invisible.”

That’s why Mitchell is set to visit the state this week for two public programs on “Amazon’s Stealth Invasion of Vermont.”       More....

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