It’s Small Business Saturday this weekend and retailers are hopeful to exceed last year’s profits even with a few hurdles. Brooke Thorington explains.
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We’re now in the second Holiday shopping season while in the COVID pandemic, and with record-high inflation. LSU Marketing Professor Dan Rice says merchants started their Holiday shopping deals earlier than normal this year, with some advertising Black Friday specials as early as Halloween. Rice says inflation has driven the cost of everything up, so expect the dollars spent to increase accordingly for merchants.
Rice says holiday shoppers looking for great deals can still find them, but it may take a little research to find them.
State Police continue to investigate a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 90 east of Raceland Thursday evening that claimed the lives of four people. Troopers say two people survived with injuries in the crash at an intersection where the driver of a Kia Optima, 54-year-old Barbara Guidry of Wiggins, Mississippi failed to yield to a westbound pickup truck, the subsequent collision causing the truck to rollover. Also killed were 35-year-old Caitland Leboeuf of Wiggins, and two Raceland residents, 31-year-old Dustin Moore and 30-year-old Michelle Moore.
With tomorrow being the final LSU football game of the season, speculation will begin to really ramp up on who the next coach will be. Jeff Palermo has more…
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