{"id":82111,"date":"2016-11-25T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=82111"},"modified":"2016-11-25T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:19:23","slug":"small-business-saturday-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/11\/25\/small-business-saturday-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Saturday this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, American Express has promoted the Saturday following Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday. The event is meant to bring focus to the many independent and locally owned brick and mortar businesses within cities across the country, often overshadowed during that weekend for big box Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping campaigns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82112\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Small-Business-Saturday-promo-11-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Small Business Saturday is set for this Saturday in downtown Van Wert. (photo submitted)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Small-Business-Saturday-promo-11-2016.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Small-Business-Saturday-promo-11-2016-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Small Business Saturday is set for this Saturday in downtown Van Wert.<\/strong> <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Locally, Main Street Van Wert has organized a special shopping promotion among the downtown Van Wert merchants each year, and is rolling out a 2016 Shop Small raffle for this Saturday, November 26.<\/p>\n<p>Each participating downtown shop has a limited amount of Shop Small merchandise to give away to shoppers that day, provided by American Express. Along with many individual store promotions, shoppers will be given raffle tickets for every purchase made at a participating shop. The downtown merchants have assembled a fantastic prize basket, valued at over $300, of beautiful gifts and store certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach raffle ticket is a chance to win this gift basket, so the more you shop, the more chances you have to win,\u201d explains MSVW Program Manager Adam Ries.<\/p>\n<p>The winning raffle ticket will be drawn the following week, the winning shopper notified by phone or email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunities thrive when small businesses thrive,\u201d Ries added. \u201cSmall Business Saturday is about putting the spotlight on the businesses that make our city unique and who generously support community projects all year long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Street Van Wert encourages residents to make a special effort this Saturday to shop local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Since 2010, American Express has promoted the Saturday following Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday. The event is meant to bring focus to the many independent and locally owned brick and mortar businesses within cities across the country, often overshadowed during that weekend for big box Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping campaigns. Locally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 01:34:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}