Dec 21, 2013
Rhode Islanders Find Joy and Convenience In Shopping LocallyBy Lynn ArditiProvidenceJournal.com

Providence, RI – Patrick Heller enjoys shopping about as much as he does getting his teeth drilled.

But on Saturday afternoon, during the last holiday shopping weekend of a shortened season, his wife, Jo Lee, 49, and his loyalty to neighborhood merchants had steered him into Frog & Toad, a boutique on Hope Street. They were shopping for Christmas gifts besides the obligatory electronic ones they’d bought for their two children, ages 9 and 11.

That’s when Heller, 50, found himself squeezed between a crush of craft displays and shoppers.

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