GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Plenty of communities were promoting their local stores for Small Business Saturday.
Green Bay’s three business districts banded together to get people out and about.
Participating businesses were passing out Shop Small passports. Three stamps from different stores entered shoppers into a raffle to win a staycation grand prize package.
“This is our second or third year doing it I think,” said Bryanna Baumann of De Pere. “It’s me, my mom, and sister and it’s something we’ve been trying to do every year. Just a girls day and stuff like that.”
Organizers for Green Bay’s event say each dollar spent on a local business returns three times more money to the local economy compared to a chain and 50 times more than spending at a mega-retailer.
