We have entered the second Holiday shopping season while in the COVID pandemic, and with record-high inflation. How will that affect your holiday shopping? LSU Marketing Professor Dan Rice says store shelves could look a bit sparse, with supply chain issues. He feels online shopping will be huge again this year but says, even so, it pays to get started now.
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Today is Small Business Saturday and State director of the National Federation of Independent Business, Dawn McVea says this year it’s more important than ever to shop locally. Last year $19.8 billion was spent at small retailers and they hope to exceed that this year.
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Small Business Saturday is an initiative that began in 2010 by American Express.

Early voting for the December 11th election begins today at 8:30. For voters in 29 parishes there are no elections but Jeremy Alford of LaPolitics-dot-com says there are some races to keep an eye on even though it’s a small ballot for the other 34 parishes…
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Today is the final day of the college football regular season. Could be Ed Orgeron’s last game as head coach of the LSU Tigers when they host Texas A-and-M tonight. It will be Skip Holtz’s final game as head coach of the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. Holtz is out after nine seasons. And the Bayou Classic is today at 4 PM between Southern and Grambling.