People across the nation will choose to shop small and local this weekend for 'Small Business Saturday.'

“It’s important for our money to go and support local economies,” said Logan McDonald, a Morro Bay visitor from Brooklyn.

Small Business Saturday was started back in 2010 by American Express as a way to help those businesses that were struggling after the 2008 financial crisis.

The following year, the Senate passed a resolution in support of it, establishing the event on the Saturday after Thanksgiving ever since.

McDonald shared why he thinks Small Business Saturday is important.

“I don’t need the creation of new products when the products I need already exist," McDonald said. "To contribute any of those hard-earned dollars that we use typically on Black Friday to be able to suppo

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