Like most everything else, holiday shopping will be different in 2020. Long lines and crowded stores normally associated with this time of year are now considered activities more likely to spread germs than holiday cheer.
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Some retailers kicked off the holiday shopping season with deals beginning as early as October. Any sense of urgency that typically accompanies Black Friday purchases has been replaced by a much slower pace. Most of this year’s sales have been ongoing, and they’re almost all happening online.
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Ava Thomas: Shopping local pays big dividends | Local | journalstar.com
It was late April when I noticed all the cardboard boxes. You've seen them, too. The ones with the smile on them — yes, the Amazon boxes. It was garbage day, and they were everywhere. By then, it had been a couple of years since cardboard was banned from landfills and required to be recycled. Still, I'd never seen so many boxes, some stacked around recycling bins that were overflowing.
It made sense. As we all hunkered down in quarantine, our shopping habits changed. The questions I pondered were whether this change would be permanent and what impact it would have on our local brick-and-mortar stores.
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If you find yourself needing to pick up some food, however, you might want to be smart about it. Of course, shopping with a mask is a no-brainer at this point. Indeed, almost every grocery chain in the country these days won’t even let you inside without a mask. Still, adhering to social distancing in a crowded grocery store can be challenging and, in some instances, completely out of your control.
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Wauwatosa Mayor: "Guns have no place in shopping malls"
WAUWATOSA (WKOW) -- Police in Wauwatosa and now the FBI are still searching for a man investigators say shot eight people inside Mayfair Mall on Friday afternoon.
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One man who came back to the mall parking lot Saturday to pick up his car said the shooting was something he'll never forget.
"Pulling up to get my car, it was just like, I don't know if I really want to walk this close to get my car after being so close to where everything happened at. But, overall, I'm alright now. it's just the point that it happened inside the mall," Aaron Perry told WISN-TV.
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Tony Coppola, vice president of operations for Historic Smithville Village, says small business owners are in a unique situation because they can adapt more easily. There is no corporate chain of command they need to go through to change something in their store.
Fran Coppola, co-owner of the Historic Smithville Village talk about how holiday shopping crowds and they're getting creative this holiday season because of covid Tuesday Nov 10, 2020. Edward Lea / Staff Photographer Press of Atlantic City
Our View: Buy local, start early for Maine pandemic holiday shopping - CentralMaine.com
Sometimes it seems like the coronavirus has changed everything. Not just the way we work, go to school or shop for groceries, but it has also changed the way we celebrate holidays.
Maine Made is a state program that builds recognition for products and industries around Maine and connects shoppers with retailers: mainemade.com
Portland Buy Local is a nonprofit that supports locally owned, independent businesses in Portland: portlandbuylocal.org
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Supporting local farmers and businesses during this time can have a powerful impact on small town economy. Photo by Metro Graphics
The importance of shopping locally has been emphasized with increasing urgency in recent years. Events like Small Business Saturday and Plaid Friday have brought some muchneeded attention to the importance of shopping local, which is even more crucial now as so many small businesses try to survive the pandemic. A poll ...
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