Sharing local economy can be a balancing act
Downtown Wallace
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Through two weekends of Home for the Holidays activities and shop local initiatives, the turnout for the events and family-friendly activities were steady throughout. However, Wallace Chamber president Valerie Finlay noted that the shopping events didn’t have as much of an impact on the local economy as she had hoped.
“I don’t think it was as strong a year as past years. That’s part of a trend happening here and in Kellogg and Coeur d’Alene and all over. The last-minute shopping was a better turnout than for the holiday event shopping. I think most everybody came out just for the events. We did OK and the importance is always in my mind of bringing people onto the doorsteps of businesses and the whole panic (shopping) before Christmas was actually pretty good,” Finlay said.
Anticipating when people will shop local has become increasingly hard for Brenda Johnson, as a shop owner, to gauge.
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