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Boston’s Snowport Holiday Market spotlights ‘unsung heroes’

Daisy Levine December 9, 2022
Snowport welcomes small business and consumers with holiday cheer
One of the vendors at the Holiday Festival hosted by bookstore More Than Words over the weekend. COURTESY OF MORE THAN WORDS

South End bookstore hosts Holiday Fest to kick off gift-giving season

Irene Chung December 5, 2019
To welcome in the holiday season, More Than Words, a bookstore that focuses on employing at-risk youth, hosted nearly 20 shops Saturday to transform their South End location into a gift market for their Holiday Fest. 
Boston residents took to local shops on #SmallBusinessSaturday to start shopping for the holidays. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Bostonians flock to local shops over the weekend to celebrate #SmallBusinessSaturday

Amy Pollard November 27, 2018
Following the chaos of Black Friday sales, Bostonians headed across the city to local small businesses to participate in Small Business Saturday.
Small Business Saturday, the Saturday following Black Friday, aims to promote shopping at local business. PHOTO COURTESY PIXABAY

Small Business Saturday places emphasis on shopping locally

Ella Torres December 3, 2015

For most small businesses, Small Business Saturday doesn’t quite deliver the same punch as Black Friday — the crowds aren’t quite as big, the sales aren’t quite as extreme and the preparations...

People shop at the Prudential Center in Boston Wednesday. This Black Friday, a popular shopping holiday, fewer people participated than in previous years. PHOTO BY MAE DAVIS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Retail stores find ways to keep Black Friday, holiday season mobbed

Devon Capizzi December 4, 2014

For many Americans, Thanksgiving weekend is family time as much as it is shopping time. Heralded as the busiest shopping day of the year, Black Friday sees stores such as Best Buy, Target, and Walmart...

EDIT: What American holiday values?

Daily Free Press Admin December 2, 2013

In elementary school, American students learned about the bountiful feast shared between Native Americans and pilgrims to symbolize their new friendship and partnership to build the United States we know...

Partnership between Boston, technology provider aims to help local businesses during holidays

Daily Free Press Admin December 2, 2013

On Small Business Saturday, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced a new partnership with Main and Me, a provider of web and mobile technology, to help local, independent businesses expand during the...

High customer turnout on Small Business Saturday

Daily Free Press Admin November 26, 2012

Competing with hundreds of large corporate retailers throughout Boston, many of the city’s small businesses started the shopping season with incentives to garner support for the local stores that add...

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