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Local business owners seek support from shoppers Saturday
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Amanda Norton watches as Julie Anne Eavenson, a sales associate at Mena Mae Children’s Boutique, scans items Friday in downtown Gainesville. Small Business Saturday was started in 2010 to encourage communities to shop at local stores such as Mena Mae. - photo by Erin O. Smith
If you needed more reasons to shop locally, business owners are happy to oblige. “Do you appreciate the fact that small businesses subsidize your personal power bill?” asked Don Griffin, owners of Frames You-Nique in Gainesville. There are a number of reasons to support small local businesses.