For many years, the day after Thanksgiving was referred to as the busiest shopping day of the year as people start buying for Christmas.
Black Friday, as the day is known, is also an important day for small businesses and Trey Ashcraft, who is on the board of the Pine Bluff Small Business Association talked about trying to promote small businesses in general.
Ashcraft appeared on the Oldies 1013 Morning Show where host Greg Horne said a lot of people now tend to shop on Amazon or go to the big city to shop but when they do. Money leaves the community.
Horne said some people believe they can save a dime on Amazon, but Amazon doesn’t sponsor that Little League team or support that basketball team or hundreds of other programs and pour money into youth organizations and more.
Horne noted that Southeast Arkansas is losing population and sending money out of town defeats the purpose of supporting the community.
