State leaders are asking people to avoid crowds this year by doing their holiday shopping at small local businesses on Black Friday.<\/p>\n
The Michigan Economic Development Corp. has launched a new campaign encouraging people to shop local, both to reduce crowds at big retailers and to help small businesses make it through the winter.<\/p>\n
The Michigan Retailers Association says, in 2017, people in Michigan spent $18.5 billion on out-of-state retailers. It claims that, if one out of every ten of those purchases was made at a local store instead, it would add $1.2 billion to the state\u2019s economy and create 10,600 new jobs.<\/p>\n
Many local retailers allow people to make purchases online to avoid in-person interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State leaders are asking people to avoid crowds this year by doing their holiday shopping at small local…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n