We’re no fools. CHS was born on the Internet and we shop there. We also find ourselves inside a Target from time to time. But we prefer to spend our dollars on Capitol Hill where our readers live, work and run businesses. It’s hardly charity. We’re smart consumers and have realized, time and time again, that we consistently have better experiences, find cooler things, drink better coffee here than anywhere else. On the entire planet. Way to go Capitol Hill, right?
Next week, the 2011 holiday shopping season will be blasted into your media experiences in a perpetual celebration of global corporate marketing.
CHS has hooked up with Capitol Hill’s Dumb Eyes, the good people at Babeland and a list of helpful sponsors to provide an on-Hill alternative — at no cost to the participating merchants, bars and restaurants.
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73 (and counting) businesses across the Hill are offering special deals next week. You can see the full roster here.
If you’re in town, we hope you’ll come out and go shopping to take advantage of the promotions. We also hope you will help spread the word about the effort by letting your friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter know about the best deals and your favorite shops and services on Capitol Hill.
More hope — We’ll continue to rally the effort through the holiday season. If you’d like to be part of it, drop us a line and we’ll get you hooked up.
make sure you know where your product was produced though.
If you make your stuff at Metrix Create:Space, you’ll know exactly where it was produced!
Sad but true; the outlook isn’t very sanguine for Capitol Hill businesses as long as developers keep putting 300+ parking spaces under their new condo units.
Where do you expect people to park? Be realistic, people drive cars in every major city with a great public transportation system.
Not having a car will insure that you are more likely to conduct your commerce on the hill. Architects and planners will tell you outright that making parking easy kills a neighborhood and not the other way around.
Consider not driving. It’s far more of a savings than anything you are like to see from driving to costco or wherever else you might go to get it “cheaper”.