Businesses in Downtown Palm Springs promoting Small Business Saturday
With Black Friday shopping all wrapped up the consumer focus now shifts to mom and pop shops for Small Business Saturday.
There’s visitors all around in downtown Palm Springs for Thanksgiving weekend, and that means a potential boon for local businesses. With Black Friday in the rear view mirror, the focus is now on Small Business Saturday.
“You get your deals and then you come and then you come and shop, local artists, local stores, all the money goes right back into the community,” Michael Weems, owner of Michael Weems Collection, said.
Weems owns an art gallery in downtown and says it’s an important day to promote “buying small”.
“We’re a seasonal town so we really need everybody to come and shop and buy our local things that we all create here in town,” he said.
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As a way to entice customers, Weems unveiled a new art collection for sale, something one shopper says attracted him without the chaos of Black Friday.
“You’re getting unique pieces. It’s not like everybody’s fighting over a name brand TV or a crock pot or something,” Jimmy Marose, a shopper from Phoenix, said.
At Destination PSP, the gift shop enticed customers with deals on dinnerware and gift cards. The manager says customers have responded positively to their Palm Springs centric items.
“They appreciate what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to develop and buy local where we can and everything’s pretty much is designed by us for us,” Bob Collins said.
With sales coming through, the holiday weekend is making “shopping small” a continued staple in Palm Springs.
This is the eighth year Small Business Saturday has happened nationwide. Next year’s push will happen on November 30th.
