Where Did President Obama Shop on Small Business Saturday?

Thursday is for ”thanks.” Friday is for shopping madness. And Saturday is for shopping local.

The growing tradition of a day to support local small businesses returned on Saturday, with President Barack Obama again supporting shop owners in Washington, D.C.

With his daughters, Obama stopped at Upshur Street Books, purchasing a bag full of books, according to Reuters, including novels by Cynthia Voigt, “Purity: A Novel” by Jonathan Franzen, “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel” by Salman Rushdie, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, Book 8,” by Jeff Kinney, and “Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life” by Rachel Renée Russell.

The family also visited Pleasant Pops in Adams Morgan for three fresh fruit frozen pops, according to The Associated Press: Obama had strawberry ginger lemonade, Malia had cookies and cream and Sasha had cranberry apple.

“This is the highlight of the girls’ Small Business Saturday,” Obama told the cashier, according to the AP.

The White House Twitter feed also retweeted other federal government leaders supporting local businesses, including Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power.

How did you support small businesses Saturday? Tell us in the comments section.

American Express created Small Business Saturday in 2010. Since then, it has become a holiday shopping staple, along with Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday.

USA Today recently shared some figures from the Small Business Saturday’s past success:

• 88 million consumers shopped at small businesses on Small Business Saturday 2014 — 1 out of every 4 Americans.
• Consumers spent an estimated $14.3 billion that day.
• Small Business Saturday is the highest sales day of the year for independent bookstores, as a result of the American Booksellers Association’s IndiesFirst campaign.
• Sales more than doubled on Small Business Saturday 2014 compared to an average Saturday, according to Weebly, which hosts small business websites, reported that.