Small Businesses End Year on Positive Note
Macomb, IL – While the holiday shopping season isn’t quite finished and many retailers are still handling gift returns, processing gift cards and offering post-Christmas clearance sales, a number of small businesses in Macomb say they ended 2011 better than they expected, in spite of the still-struggling economy.
Pam Kelso, co-owner of No Place Like Home on West Jackson Street, said the gift shop she owns with Diana Mayhew did especially well over the holiday shopping season, thanks to a loyal base of steady customers.
Although Kelso is still working on final numbers, she said, “It was one of the best years ever. It was really great.”
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