Local news covers shopping small and local for Small Business Saturday

Happy Small Business Saturday! I begin today's celebration with WPIX11 News in New York, which interviewed Marlene Cintron, the regional director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, who explained Small Business Saturday: Impact of shopping local.

Nearly 200,000 small businesses are based in New York City.

Marlene Cintron, the regional director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, talks about how Small Business Saturday impacts vital mom-and-pop shops on PIX11 Morning News.

Cintron provided a good overview. WESH 2 News in Orlando added some numbers in Small Business Saturday: Shoppers favor local stores over big retailers.


Here are the numbers, which show that more people are planning on shopping small and local this year than ten years ago.


The campaign is working, so good job to the people and organizations promoting Small Business Saturday and to the consumers, who are doing something sustainable at the intersection of society and economy!

I return to the Big Apple for more numbers from CBS New York reporting Black Friday, Small Business Saturday kick off holiday shopping season.

The National Retail Federation predicts sales this holiday shopping season could hit nearly $1 trillion. As CBS News New York's Alecia Reid reports, a record number of people are expected to shop online and in stores over the next couple days.

One trillion dollars — wow! I won't know if that happens until after Christmas, but I plan on checking sales figures on Cyber Monday.

I would usually stop here and tell my readers to stay tuned, but this is a Metro-Detroit-based blog, so I'm sharing CBS Detroit telling its viewers to Shop in Wyandotte for Small Business Saturday as an encore.

Kick off your holiday shopping in Wyandotte for Small Business Saturday.

I'm not going to drive down to Wyandotte today, but I will be shopping at a nearly small business, which is holding a sale on pet supplies today for Small Business Saturday. I am literally putting my money where my mouth (or my fingers typing on my keyboard) is!

That concludes November's blogging. Stay tuned for three more holidays, a special observance of World AIDS Day as the Sunday entertainment feature, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday to kick off December. I love holidays!