Expand<\/a><\/p>\nKeith Cavallotti, owner of Pop It! Jackets and Accessories, 706 E. Market St., played a key role in originally organizing the event and takes pride in continuing the efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always have aspirations of long-lasting business in general \u2026 and then to put together a really fun event for the community, for the Green Ridge Corners, I think is really great,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd to have it last for 10 years, I think that\u2019s really an accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cavallotti noted the timing of the sale serves as a nice bridge to back-to-school shopping later in the summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cJuly is such a downtime after the Fourth,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone is on vacation and not in the shopping process, they\u2019re kind of waiting for fall, so it\u2019s a nice boost. It\u2019s truly such a big help for all the businesses. I know, myself, it really helps you keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
From Cavallotti \u2014 a longtime member of the neighborhood\u2019s business community \u2014 to Marie Allen and Kelly Doyle, who took over The Releafery, 709 E. Market St., in April, the camaraderie among shop owners is strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it helps that we\u2019re all kind of unique and don\u2019t do the same things,\u201d Allen said. \u201cWe all support each other and try to drive business to each other if we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cavallotti stressed that Allen and Doyle have fit right in among the other owners from the start and appreciates their efforts to keep the business open after the former owner, Lindsey Green, stepped aside.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been ready to do whatever\u2019s necessary to help when it comes to planning an event and bringing people together,\u201d he said. \u201cI can tell they have a real excitement about the business, which is always fun to see. Losing a business is brutal, so to have it transition so smoothly has been really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mary Rose Perry, owner of Enchanted Elephant Boutique, 2019 Boulevard Ave., believes customers eagerly await the Christmas in July sales.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey love them, they come every year for them,\u201d she said. \u201cThey look forward to it along with the Fall Festival, too. I think it\u2019s very important and we all do it together. It\u2019s a nice thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other businesses expected to participate in the Christmas in July sale include the Curiosity Shop, 640 E. Market St.; Cosmik Gifts, 1827 Sanderson Ave.; Changes Luxury Consignment, 1823 Sanderson Ave.; Sports Medley Bowling Pro Shop, 1926 Boulevard Ave.; Cuppa Cake Cafe, 701 E. Market St.; The Post Ice Cream & Events, 625 Deacon St.; and Khlovan\u2019s Thrift, 702 E. Market St.<\/p>\n
Cavallotti feels customers like taking a break from the heat and humidity to boost their mood and make a few early holiday purchases.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the weather being so hot, and everyone being in that relaxed summer mode, it\u2019s something fun,\u201d he said. \u201cEven though Christmas is far away, it comes before you know it. People will actually buy some gifts and start thinking ahead. There\u2019s just something special about Christmas. I think people really buy into that and really enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 For the past decade, small shops in the Green Ridge section of the city have banked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-244428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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