Small businesses are hoping for a ton of customers tomorrow as it’s Small Business Saturday. Michelle Southern has more…
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Could Houston Head Coach Tom Herman be the next head football coach of the LSU Tigers? Jeff Palermo has more…
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Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday and local, independent businesses are expecting a big day. Spokesperson for the National Federation of Independent Businesses in Louisiana, Todd Pack, says a recent survey shows more people than ever are away of Small Business Saturday and 62-percent of those plan to shop at small retailers…
Pack says those who plan to shop locally on Saturday say they value the contributions these local businesses have on the community…
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The Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey also found 63-percent of shoppers are willing to spend a little more on an item if it comes from a locally owned business. Pack says this is really exciting news for small business owners.
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The holiday shopping season is underway. Executive Director of the Louisiana Retailers Association, Dawn Johnson, says it’s a different kind of holiday shopping season in the Bayou State, because of the flooding that took place earlier this year…
Johnson says they are cautiously optimistic that this will be a good holiday shopping season for Louisiana retailers. She says this is an especially important time for those retailers that were impacted by the historic floods in March and August…
Johnson says it’s hard for them to make predictions on the type of holiday shopping season it will be in Louisiana, because flood victims don’t have the cash on hand to buy certain kinds of gifts…
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Houston’s Tom Herman has emerged as LSU’s top candidate to be the next head football coach of the Tigers. Glen Guilbeau of the USA Today Network and featured columinst for Tiger Rag Magazine says LSU representatives paid Herman a visit on Thanksgiving Day…
Guilbeau says LSU has also approached Florida State Head Coach Jimbo Fisher, but he declined an offer that would pay him in the neighborhood of seven-million dollars a year. He says interim head coach Ed Orgeron remains a candidate as well…
Since the Tigers fired Les Miles in September, Fisher and Herman have been considered the top candidates to be the head coach at LSU. Guilbeau says if Texas comes in with a strong offer, the 41-year-old Herman, who has coached in the Longhorn state for many years, may go there instead…
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This Saturday’s Powerball jackpot drawing has jumped to a whopping 403 million dollars. Louisiana Lottery Spokesperson Kim Chopin says this is the 9th largest jackpot in Powerball history.
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Chopin says this is the second year in a row we’ve seen a huge Powerball jackpot during the holiday season. Last year the jackpot reached a record 1.6 billion dollars. She says the winner of this year’s jackpot will be able to purchase a lot of Christmas gifts.
Chopin expects a lot of people will be buying tickets for Saturday’s drawing because they’re already out holiday shopping.
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