MORRISVILLE, Vt. -
The big box stores hype up black Friday but come Saturday it's all about staying local for small business Saturday
It's hard for these small businesses to compete so these locals stores need to offer something that those big ones don't. At Orah Moore's store Haymaker Card and Gift there's definitely that.
She shows off hand died scarves, pottery and even goats milk soap, all products of Vermont. Moore estimates she has the work of fifty different Vermonter's in her store...including her own photography and cards.
"Right now we're having a little more wintry type of photography shown here," Moore said.
It's the season for shopping and on small business Saturday Morristown isn't giving excuses for shoppers to stay home by offering gift certificate winnings through the middle of January.
"But it must be a locally owned business," Community Development Coordinator Tricia Tollert said.
"It does not include any of our stores that are not locally owned."
But it isn't slim pickings. There are more than 70 locally owned stores in the area. But for as many local businesses as there are it's still a pretty small community with only about 5000 people.
"There's not a lot of people here but the ones that are here are very loyal and fabulous," Moore said.
That's not a lot of pocketbooks to rely on but there's another currency that counts in Morrisville.
"There's so much more than money here the kind of sharing that goes on in the community and there's a wealth here that's more than money," Moore said.
You can't find a forty inch flat screen at Haymaker but there's other things that still look good coming out of gift wrap.
