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Small Business Saturday started after the 2008 financial crisis, led by firms like payments giant American Express, in an effort to rejuvenate independent stores.
I t now acts as a counterweight to Black Friday , a sales bonanza which is held a week earlier and is largely focused on big brands like Amazon and chain stores like the supermarkets.
For Bardan Pradhan, from the Village Greengrocers in Charlton, London, it is a great time to reconnect with local shoppers.
Small Business Saturday "is one of our busiest periods of the year" he told The Independent as he prepares to sell Christmas trees, panettone, loaves of Christmas-spiced bread known as stollen and vegetables for dinner on the big day.
He concedes that the rise of online shops and the Black Friday sales they dominate has been hard for the high street.
"There will always be growth in e-commerce but there is a strong, genuine demand for customers to have that interaction, that banter local shops provide, which is priceless."
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