The Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Gardnerville are working together, once again, to make it fun and rewarding for consumers to shop our local retailers on Saturday, November 29th. Our third partner in this effort is American Express, who is the national promoter of the event.
The CV Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Gardnerville are enlisting our member businesses to be part of the day’s events. Each of those members will have special offers that day and 25 of those businesses will also have a $25 American Express Gift Card to give away to a lucky customer that day. A list of the participating stores will be available on the Chamber and Main Street web sites starting November 10th and the stores will be displaying the ‘Shop Small’ logo in their windows.
In addition, we’ve created a Holiday Treasure Tree form that will be available at participating businesses on November 29th. This form will have the names and addresses of all the participating businesses on it. “Shoppers” who collect at least ten stars from local participating businesses and bring those forms to the Chamber office by 3:45 pm that day, will be given one entry into a drawing for the ‘Holiday Treasure’. Depending on the number of participating businesses, if “shoppers” collect 20 stars, they will get two entries, 30 stars will get three entries, etc. We will draw a winner at 4:00 pm that day. If shoppers visit each business, they will also be entered into a second drawing for a special gift basket filled with goodies from the Chocolate Shoppe.
What’s the ‘Holiday Treasure’? That’s a gift basket made up of one gift donation of at least $20 in value from each of the participating businesses. That basket will be worth hundreds of dollars and will go a long way towards making your holiday stockings much fuller.
The real goal, of course, is to encourage shoppers to seek out the specialized service and product knowledge that you get from small businesses and to keep holiday shopping dollars in Carson Valley, where they can circulate and have the greatest impact. Make your plans now to Shop Small on Small Business Saturday!