Shopping for the holidays continued on Saturday with Small Business Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Last year’s snow caused local businesses to scramble, this year it was all about making a comeback or businesses opening new storefronts.<\/p>\n
After years of being a pop-up shop, Flagship City Press now has a storefront.<\/p>\n
Deanna Rupp, co-owner of Flagship City Press said, “This is a unique store. There’s nothing quite like it. So I feel like that’s another reason why we wanted to bring it to Erie and switch it up.”<\/p>\n
The small business is known for the stationary, books, notepads and other unique Erie- centric gifts. The co-owners knew the wanted to call downtown Erie home.<\/p>\n
Corinne Kraus, the co-owner of Flagship City Press said, “The small businesses make up the downtown and it gives it that family feel and we just wanted to be a part of that.”<\/p>\n
Just around the block, numerous vendors set up shop in the Boston Store to sell their homemade goods, like Julie Shanahan.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of new trends coming out with the dehydrated oranges, wreaths, garlands even with that rustic feel\u201d, said Shanahan.<\/p>\n
While this year’s Small Business Saturday was a first year for some businesses, for others it was a redemption after last year’s snow.<\/p>\n
“Last year it was a huge it for all of us in the community that do small business, especially Small Business Saturday because that’s the main event of the holiday season\u201d, said Shanahan.<\/p>\n
Shop owners said they rely on these kind of community events to keep their businesses going.<\/p>\n
Many local businesses have different holiday hours for shopping. Cyber Monday deals for the season kick off on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shopping for the holidays continued on Saturday with Small Business Saturday. Last year’s snow caused local businesses to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5527,11642,136,138,137,15135,296,8785,12516,23096,6673],"class_list":["post-47764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-christmas","tag-downtown-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-festive","tag-local","tag-shopping","tag-small-businesses","tag-small-business-saturday","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47764","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=47764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}