By GARRETT SAGER
Hays Post

With the holiday season comes and exciting time of shopping and time spent with family. The Saturday after Thanksgiving is lodged between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but is truly a day that stands on its own as one of the most important shopping days of the year.

Small Business Saturday is Nov. 26, the Saturday after Black Friday. “Shop small” has been a growing nationwide movement since 2010 as a chance to celebrate small businesses and help the communities those businesses reside in thrive.

On this day, Sara Bloom, executive director of Downtown Hays Development Corp., would like you to get up, get out and shop small.

“When you shop local, your dollar means twice as much,” Bloom said. “Your dollar is paying for those who live in the community, it’s paying for the owners to shop at other small businesses, it’s keeping the sales tax dollars in town.”

Small Business Saturday focuses on bringing the money back to local businesses, which makes a big impact in the community.

“If you imagine our community without small businesses, it’s boring, it’s abandoned, it’s depressing. So we want to make sure that people are remembering to shop local, to shop small,” Bloom said.

While there are good deals on Black Friday, Bloom said, many shops in downtown Hays will wait until Saturday to launch their best deals.

Bloom said many merchants in downtown Hays say Friday is for the box stores, while their focus in on Small Business Saturday.

A look at the deals can be found at The Bricks in Downtown Hays Facebook.