Feb 14, 2009

Cupids keep on shoppingBy Brent MazeClantonAdvertiser.com

Love has no awareness of a recession, at least when it comes to Valentine’s Day.

According to local business owners, local Cupids this year have been spending as much, if not more in some cases, as they did in 2008.

Wright Drugs and Gift Shop manager Debbie Burch said has business has been good for Valentine’s Day. A big seller has been gift baskets, especially those for kids.

“We’ve been selling lots of kids baskets for their parents to take to them at school,” Burch said yesterday. “It’s been mostly parents so far this week, but tomorrow, it’s going to be mostly husbands. They always wait until the last minute.”

Burch said she has been selling a wide variety of items, including goodie baskets for the kids and cologne and jewelry for the adults.

The jewelry business has also been busy this year. Stacy Watson of Edwards Jewelry said Valentine’s Day is becoming a much bigger holiday.

“It’s beginning to be about as busy as Mother’s Day,” he said.

Though Edwards sells many engagement rings this time of year, Watson has sold more Pandora bracelets and charms this year. The range of ages of customers varies from husbands buying for their wives to boys buying for their girlfriends.

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