John Garamendi said "Black Friday, a week ago. It is all about the big retailers. But Small Saturday, now that was exciting. A lot of advertising out in California about, Go to your local shop. Buy local. Buy small. And it was just what you are talking about, and that is to find a way to provide opportunity, moving, in this case, customers to the local stores. Instead of the big box store, go down to Main Street. Stop at the local shop. Very, very powerful. And I suspect that many of us did that. We stopped at the local store, and we didn't go down to Home Depot. We went down to the Ace Hardware." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordDecember 14, 2011

Black Friday, a week ago. It is all about the big retailers. But Small Saturday, now that was exciting. A lot of advertising out in California about, Go to your local shop. Buy local. Buy small. And it was just what you are talking about, and that is to find a way to provide opportunity, moving, in this case, customers to the local stores. Instead of the big box store, go down to Main Street. Stop at the local shop. Very, very powerful. And I suspect that many of us did that. We stopped at the local store, and we didn't go down to Home Depot. We went down to the Ace Hardware.

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John Garamendi

Democratic · California

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