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With Small Business Saturday coming this weekend, you can encourage shoppers to stop by a local store.
Is Black Friday worth the trouble?
You just ate a feast's worth of turkey and stayed up a good part of the night watching football or talking with relatives you haven't seen in months.
And now it's a good idea to be caught waking up at the crack of dawn and waiting in a long line outside of a department store in the chilly November weather for that bargain?
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Sleep in on Black Friday and do some holiday shopping on Small Business Saturday instead.
Small Business Saturday, a calendar event conceived by American Express, encourages holiday shoppers to avoid the busy parking lots at outlets and instead take a trip down local streets.
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