Black Friday an Opportunity for Hillsborough Shops
Presence of national chains means opportunity for shoppers, local merchants say
Kevin Sweeney’s Bentley's Fine Jewelers is in the shadow of the Kohl’s anchor store in the Hillsborough Promenade shopping center. It’s actually a pretty good place to be heading into the first big holiday shopping weekend, Sweeney said this week. “The crowds don’t thin out after their door-buster specials,” he said. “The parking lot is full all day. We get the spillover.” Sweeney’s store is attached to the Kohl’s, which anchors one end of the sprawling shopping center on Route 206. The proximity increases his own traffic, he said. This year, larger, national retailers are expanding the traditional Black Friday by adding hours on Thanksgiving Day. For smaller retailers, it is a choice of whether to follow the lead of their larger neighbors…
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Gayle Harris
11:14 am on Thursday, November 22, 2012
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