Chris Reed is a multimedia journalist covering St. George.
For shoppers, this season is the most wonderful time of the year, but Utah store owners hope people shop a little bit more with a cart than a keyboard.Monica Bracken grew up in St. George and remembers before dot-coms and big boxes when people would walk around to mom-and-pop stores for Christmas. Now, a co-owner with her husband of the Rise and Wonder boutique in Ancestor Square, she’s part of a new wave of people trying to bring that back.
7 million consumers shopped in stores last Friday, up nearly 5 million from last year and the highest level since the pandemic.And what brings Santa out shopping?'Christmas. How about that, huh?' said St. George resident and a Santa himself, Ken Decker. 'Gotta get stocking stuffers, gotta get a lot of gifts and stuff like that. That's what we're out for.'As a portrayer of the jolly big man himself, Decker goes to a lot of mom-and-pop stores in St.
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