small business saturday

• Maryland

Small Business Saturday offered reminder to shop at Stoneleigh's bike shop and other local stores

Courtney McGee column.

• Maryland

Shoppers come out for downtown Bel Air stores on Small Business Saturday, despite rainy weather

Shops in downtown Bel Air reported a strong presence of customers on Small Business Saturday even with rainy and chilly weather.

By David Anderson

Nov 26, 2018

• Business

'Museum Store Sunday' seeks spot between small business and cyber shopping days

Holiday shoppers know about Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. Now, museum stores want to snag a day of their own.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Nov 24, 2018

• Maryland

'Tis the season,' The Aegis editorial says

Thanksgiving Weekend is busy in Bel Air, elsewhere in Harford

• Maryland

Editorial: Shop small, local in Carroll County for Small Business Saturday

More than 50 million consumers are expected to shop this Saturday, Nov. 24 specifically to support small, local businesses on what has become known as Small Business Saturday. Carroll County, for the third straight year, is offering its passport program to incentivize patronizing local businesses.

• Maryland

Westminster's Fairground Village Shopping Center to host Small Business Saturday event with prizes

Business owners of the Fairground Village Shopping Center in Westminster are hosting a Small Business Saturday event with a prize worth more than $800.

• Maryland

Hitting Towson malls on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday

Two Towson shopping centers, Towson Town Center and The Shops at Kenilworth, are gearing up for busy holiday shopping on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and later in December at Kenilworth, there will be "Procrastinators Night."

By Libby Solomon

Nov 21, 2018

• Maryland

For Ellicott City businesses, Shop Small Saturday is a study in resilience

As the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season approaches, retail business owners in historic Ellicott City are gearing up for Shop Small Saturday on Nov. 24.

• Maryland

Editorial: Think, donate local on Giving Tuesday

Much like Small Business Saturday, we’d like to encourage folks to think a little more locally when making a donation to a charitable cause on Giving Tuesday.

• Maryland

Bel Air hosts Small Business Saturday, Festival of Trees

Coverage of annual Festival of Trees and Small Business Saturday in Bel Air.

By David Anderson

Nov 26, 2017

• Business

Consumers shop small on Saturday after Thanksgiving

Consumers shop at small and independent retailers on Small Business Saturday, the holiday after Black Friday created eight years ago by American Express.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Nov 25, 2017

• Maryland

Szymanski: While doing all that post-Thanksgiving shopping, don't forget to do a little giving

While many of us crashed on sofas and chairs doing our best to sleep off tryptophan served up with turkey, others had another itch to scratch — the urge to shop.

• Maryland

Passports promote small business spending in Carroll

For the second year, small businesses in Carroll will hand out passports encouraging residents to explore local offerings during Small Business Saturday.

• Maryland

Editorial: Shop Small Businesses Saturday and win

There are plenty of reasons to shop local, small businesses this Saturday and year-round.

• Business

Small business Saturday events around Maryland

A list of Small Business Saturday events in communities around Baltimore.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Nov 22, 2017

• Baltimore County

Towson businesses tout shopping 'small' this weekend

Towson area business owners, chamber, encourage residents to "shop small" this holiday season with promotions at small businesses in Towson and beyond.

By Margarita Cambest

Nov 21, 2017

• Howard County

Ellicott City set to measure its comeback during holiday season

After last year's flood, Ellicott City merchants looking toward Small Business Saturday, which falls immediately after Thanksgiving.

• Opinion

Shop 'small' to celebrate small business

Celebrate Catonsville's quaint charm on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 25

• Food & Drink

Tea parlor Emma's Tea Spot opening in Hamilton

A British tea spot is opening in the former home of the Green Onion Market.

By Sarah Meehan

Nov 10, 2017

• Business

Ellicott City's Main Street reopens after flood

After four months of raking out mud and rebuilding, Sally Fox Tennant joined about 70 other business operators on the historic street Saturday for the official reopening of downtown Ellicott City.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Nov 26, 2016

• Maryland

Entrepreneurs hope events help lure shoppers for Small Business Saturday

Events are scheduled in shopping districts around Maryland to lure people who are looking to spend their money at locally owned establishments on Small Business Saturday.

By Scott Dance

Nov 25, 2016

• Maryland

Small Business Saturday unites Carroll municipalities for promotion

Small Business Saturday will be celebrated Saturday, November 26 throughout Carroll County at 90 small businesses with a passport program.

• Maryland

Editorial: Support small, local business Saturday

If Black Friday or Cyber Monday don't sound appealing, perhaps Small Business Saturday will.

• Features

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday deals at Baltimore-area stores

JG Sassy will offer the following discounts through Monday, Nov. 28: 30 percent off jeans; 30 percent off cashmere sweaters; 50 to 60 percent off Saint James,

By John-John Williams IV

Nov 23, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

Saturday: Craft fairs, bazaars, pop-ups, and more

Nov. 26

• Maryland

Carroll Night Out: Carroll holiday season kicks off this weekend

Westminster hosts holiday parade while others organizations make plans for holiday season

• Business

Small Business Saturday has become big business for local merchants

It has evolved into the biggest single day for sales in the holiday season for some independent businesses, and one of the biggest days for others. Increased shopper traffic – much of it generated by publicity from the giant credit card issuer and by community and business associations -- pays off in other ways too. It attracts new customers who otherwise wouldn't think to patronize smaller shops and reminds residents about locally owned shops in their own backyards.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Nov 20, 2016

• Harford

Tis the season to be jolly [Editorial]

With Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday out of the way, the headlong rush to Christmas is under way.

• Harford

Shoppers push to support local businesses in Bel Air during Small Business Saturday

Downtown Bel Air was bustling with holiday shoppers Saturday as people took advantage of post-Thanksgiving deals and made an effort to patronize independently-owned businesses for Small Business Saturday.

By David Anderson

Nov 30, 2015

• Business

Consumers come out to 'Shop Small' during holiday weekend

The "Shop Small" campaign started six years ago as an American Express-created "holiday" to get consumers to think about patronizing, independent local establishments during the Black Friday weekend. This year, neighborhoods and businesses throughout the Baltimore region participated in special events and promotions.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Nov 28, 2015

• Harford

Havre de Grace, Bel Air businesses are in the spotlight for Small Business Saturday

This Saturday, Harford County's small businesses want to offer shoppers something big-box stores and online retailers can't: an experience.

• Harford

Shoppers come out early as Harford stores open on Thanksgiving

Businesses were working hard to get customers to their stores, at a time when Black Friday gets diluted by online shopping, new "holidays" like Small Business Saturday and more scattered opening times.

• Maryland

Shopping local encouraged amid holiday frenzy

Local shops, restaurants push for residents to shop local

• Maryland

Editorial: Shop local on Small Business Saturday

While we shop the big box stores and places like Amazon.com as much as anyone, we think the idea of tomorrow's Small Business Saturday could be the most important to observe.

• Opinion

Making giving a higher priority

Make charitable giving a higher priority than discount shopping this year

• Howard County

For holidays, trains and shopping, but no sauerkraut

Don't forget that Nov. 28 is small business Saturday. Show your support of the terrific individual businesses in the historic district by doing some shopping there — that day or any one soon.

• Opinion

Give yourself the gift of quality health care

Why not give yourself the gift of quality, affordable health care?

• Maryland

Workers need to earn living wage

• Howard County

Two new shops open on Ellicott City's Main Street

A bookshop and a boutique both opened this fall on Ellicott City's historic Main Street, adding to the mix of retail in time for the launch of the holiday shopping season.

• Laurel Leader

Franchot shops local for the holidays in Laurel

Kids home from school, and some adults home from work, might not have ventured out into the Laurel streets lightly dusted with snow, but the weather Monday was just right for Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot to do some holiday shopping.

• Harford

Shopping season hits Harford [editorial]

Shopping holidays have their place, but the business textbook basics – quality product, effective promotion, prominent placement and reasonable price – will always carry the day when it comes to attracting and keeping customers, long after the hype has faded.

• Harford

'Black Friday' on Thanksgiving a hit in Harford

Cathi Mielke, a committed Black Friday shopper, got a slightly earlier start this year than in prior years.

• Howard County

Holiday shopping events bring 'festive' air to historic Ellicott City

Holiday shoppers came out in force to support historic Ellicott City's shops this weekend for Small Business Saturday.

• Harford

Getting warm holiday feelings in Bel Air [Column]

I got a taste of Harford County's holiday spirit Sunday, and lo, it was good.

• Thanksgiving

Despite more time to shop, Black Friday weekend customers spend less

Despite extra time to shop as more retailers opened for business on Thanksgiving Day, consumers spent less money this year during the first four days of the official start of the holiday shopping season, according to figures released Sunday by the National Retail Federation.

• Sales

'Shop Small' gives merchants a big boost

Scores of independent merchants in the Baltimore area did their part Saturday to get the "Shop Small" message out for the fourth annual Small Business Saturday. American Express launched the initiative four years ago to help small shops compete with national chains and online sellers during the traditional kickoff weekend to the holiday retail season.

• Harford

Bel Air, Aberdeen, Havre de Grace ready for Small Business Saturday

Harford County holiday shoppers may have flooded local retailers Thanksgiving evening and Friday morning for traditional Black Friday sales, but there will be plenty of great pre-Christmas deals to choose from in the shops along the main downtown streets of Bel Air, Aberdeen and Havre de Grace during Small Business Saturday.

• Services and Shopping

For some, Black Friday shopping began on Thanksgiving

Experts predicted that 33 million Americans planned to go shopping on Thanksgiving Day, and Baltimore-area shoppers were no exception. Many Marylanders hit the stores in between Thanksgiving dinners and the nighttime Ravens-Steelers game.

• Carroll County Times

Westminster fun run and parade on Nov. 30 set stage for Santa's arrival

Free activities and shoppers' specials on Main Street

• Maryland

Editorial: Ready, set, shop