Many years ago in Germany, I had an acquaintance who described Americans as "people who buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like." I was very unhappy with him for a long time about that characterization but I always think about what he said when Black Friday rolls around and know I cannot argue with his point.
Where I live, Norwich, Connecticut, a town of about 40,000, if I were to add up all the square footage of all the shops in our downtown, occupied buildings or otherwise, I suspect it's less than the floor space in the average Super Box Store. It's getting better and will keep growing but the big bucks head to the Big Box stores. Fair enough, I guess.
I can be gracious and concede that reality because today is Small Business Saturday, and assuming you're not tuckered out from that super deal you got on the 1932 hand-carved mahogany Terraplane at MaxBucks MegaStore, you could support one or more of the local shops where you live, all of whom help make your city or town an even better place to come home to, so let's agree to do that okay?.
- bill kenny
- bill kenny
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