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Weekend retail recap
Pairing wine with charity Women Winemakers raffle benefits Foodbank By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
The Santa Barbara County Women Winemakers launched a virtual raffle last week to benefit the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. Tickets will be sold through Dec. 11 at womenwinemakersraffle. eventbrite.com. Participants from Women Winemakers donated bottles of wine and wine-tasting tickets to the drawing. All proceeds go to the Foodbank’s distribution efforts, which have become integral during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The holidays and winter months are normally a difficult time for those we serve. This year the economic impact of COVID-19 has created a drastic increase in need. The Foodbank has steadily doubled the amount of food we distribute in a typical year,” said Laurel Alcantar, senior development manager for Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. “We are truly grateful to the Women Winemakers for putting this together and for helping us ensure that everyone in our community has access to healthy food this holiday season,” she Please see RAFFLE on A3 RAFAEL MALDONADO / NEWS-PRESS
Antique Alley owner Alan Howard said Black Friday is generally slow around his store, but that he saw a rush of customers on Saturday.
A not-so-brief intermission Theaters struggle in purple tier By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Back in the purple tier, the few choices theaters once had are gone. Some have developed online assets to bring revenue through the website, but others are stuck waiting. Metropolitan Theatres, owner of many of Santa Barbara’s cinemas, seeks to sell gift cards as it waits to reopen. In an email sent to newsletter subscribers with the subject line “Help Support Our Theatres this Holiday,” it offered a deal: get a $10 concession voucher for every $30 spent on gift cards. Only two theaters are open of its 16 locations across California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah. When Santa Barbara County progressed into the red tier in October, the Fiesta Five and Camino Real cinemas opened under strict precautions. Most of the seats had to remain empty to keep with social distancing protocols. It wasn’t profitable, Metropolitan’s president David Please see theaters on A8
Stella Trapin, assistant manager of The Closet Trading Company, at right, said business in her shop was comperable to last year over the weekend.
Black Friday still a big day for local retailers By JOSH GREGA NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Though it has been tough for the retail sector amid the COVID-19 pandemic and even prior due to online shopping, many small, local retail businesses experienced successful Black Fridays or Small Business Saturdays over the weekend. Most retailers on State Street who spoke to the News-Press on Monday reported that most of the post-Thanksgiving shopping their stores received was concentrated in
one particular day instead of spread between days. Antique Alley owner Alan Howard remarked that whereas Black Friday is a big deal for the likes of department stores and brand name outlets, for his antique shop the day after Thanksgiving is usually a slow business day, similar to any other Friday during the year. This was also the case this year. On Saturday, however, Mr. Howard saw a surge of customers, many who were from out of town. Many of those out-of-towners were also returning customers who made it a point to Please see retail on A8
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