Support local merchants, shop local this season

The Island Now

You can support small retailers by joining me and your neighbors on the second annual national Small Business Saturday, this coming Saturday, November 24. 

Skip the national chain stores annual Black Friday Madness, which now starts early Thursday night. Stay home and enjoy your Thanksgiving meal with friends and family. Get a good nights sleep and instead come out and support Small Business by shoping local. In these difficult economic times, it is especially important to patronize your neighborhood businesses. There are so many great options to choose from.

Remember these people are our neighbors. They work long hours, pay taxes and provide local employment. If we don’t patronize our local community stores and restaurants to shop and eat, they don’t eat either.

Please join me and your neighbors in continuing to support our Great Neck News and sister pubications New Hyde Park Herald Courier and Williston Times. Patronize their advertisers; they provide the necessary revenues to help keep them in business. Let them know you saw their ad. This helps keep our neighbors employed and the local economy growing.

 Larry Penner

Great Neck

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