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"We are already very busy and believe this will be our best holiday ever," said Amazon spokesperson Lauren Englund.Īs tech workers bustle around headquarters in South Lake Union, deals on the site urge shoppers to "skip lines and shop Black Friday deals from anywhere, even your couch." "That's something we're always struggling with, but you know certain things…it's just inevitable," Jamison said of shopping online.īlack Friday and Cyber Monday can be counted as some of Amazon's busiest days. However, she admits that she takes advantage of the ease of online shopping through retail giant Amazon, which is still local, just on a much larger scale. You know, why would we want our dollars to go anywhere else?" said Jamison. "Whenever we get the chance to support a local West Seattle business, we always do that. They made the executive decision to avoid traditional Black Friday sales.
Kristina Jamison and her husband stopped in the store Friday to browse. "This is the jewelry that I make, so everything is hand fabricated in West Seattle," Loertscher said of her display. Loertscher said most employees at the store are small business owners themselves. "I think it's a good push back to the Black Friday mania that has kinda taken over," said Sarah Loertscher, who works at Click! in West Seattle.From the White House to Washington's Governor Jay Inslee, there's an intensified push this year to play up "Small Business Saturday," an initiative started by American Express in 2010. Frantic crowds, long lines and big box stores - that's not the scene you'll find at the Junction in West Seattle, where stores are rolling out deals and special events to lure locals to shop small this weekend.