Gift Card Program Promotes Local Shopping In Sacramento This Christmas

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Local restaurants and retailers are acceptable for the Christmas vacation arsenic shoppers prime up last-minute gifts, and this year, they whitethorn person immoderate other wealth successful their pouch acknowledgment to Sacramento’s caller physics acquisition paper program.

“I deliberation that’s an awesome idea,” said Jan Hughes, who was buying successful Old Sacramento.

Shop 916 is an physics acquisition paper programme kicking disconnected conscionable days earlier the holiday.

“All of the communities person been hard hit, truthful thing that helps is awesome,” Hughes said.

The programme encourages shoppers to deed up section stores for last-minute gifts with a small other wealth successful their pocket.

“Everyone’s coming unneurotic and being supporting of each other,” said Fox and Goose Owner Jessa Berkey.

Here’s however the programme works.

Go to Shop 916, buy a $25 acquisition paper to get an other $10 to spend. With $50, you get an other $25, and if you bargain a $100 acquisition card, you’ll get an other $50.

So wherever is the metropolis getting this wealth from? The programme is funded with $200,000 from the national American Rescue Plan, which the Sacramento City Council approved this autumn arsenic portion of $8.2 cardinal for concern betterment efforts.

“The metropolis is doing it’s champion to enactment the section tiny businesses and the assemblage astatine large,” Berkey said. “Our unit is ace excited due to the fact that they cognize the concern volition beryllium supported, their jobs volition beryllium supported.”

And with wealth coming in, her unit is blessed to beryllium slinging scones to customers.

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“Hopefully it draws much radical retired successful enactment of these businesses truthful they don’t person to shutter,” said Jennifer Vizenor.