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Speaker 1: This year marks fifteen years since the first Small Business Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and American Express says around eighty six percent of shoppers

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Speaker 1: are expected to head down to Main Street to shop local.

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Speaker 1: John is here at the Blue Bunny bookstore and coffee

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Speaker 1: shop in Debtham, and he says places like this are

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Speaker 1: the lifeblood of the community.

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Speaker 2: It's a really like a Cheers in Denham. Everyone knows

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Speaker 2: everyone's name, everyone asks how you're doing and what's going

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Speaker 2: on in your world.

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Speaker 1: And for owners Peter and Paul Reynolds, it's the community

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Speaker 1: aspect that makes this day so special for them. Peter

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Speaker 1: says small businesses are the essence of what America is

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Speaker 1: all about.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's easy to double click and have something show

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Speaker 3: up in your doorstep, but guess what, You'll never leave

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Speaker 3: your house. And I think people are realizing that community

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Speaker 3: is really important, that seeing your neighbor matters.

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Speaker 1: Being a bookstore in the big twenty twenty five is

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Speaker 1: not easy, but Paul says he's proud of the support

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Speaker 1: they get from the community, especially when Amazon tried to

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Speaker 1: open up a brick and border store in town.

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Speaker 4: Guess who disappeared after I think after maybe two years.

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Speaker 5: So we're still standing and Amazon Books is gone

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Speaker 1: From Dedham, Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio