Small Business Saturday 2018: Who You Can Support In Bethesda

BETHESDA, MD — Wedged between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is Small Business Saturday — an annual holiday shopping tradition that encourages people to patronize mom-and-pop stores in their area.

American Express created Small Business Saturday in 2010 as a way to help struggling small businesses rebound from the economic recession.

"What began nine years ago as an effort to support local stores during the holiday shopping season has become the Shop Small movement, bringing together millions of shoppers, small businesses of all kinds, civic leaders and organizations in thousands of towns and cities across the country," said Elizabeth Rutledge, chief marketing officer at American Express. "Shopping small has a significant and positive effect on local communities, and we hope Small Business Saturday will help to amplify that effect during the crucial holiday shopping season. When we spend local, small businesses thrive. And when small businesses thrive, we all thrive."

Since 2010, thousands of stores have joined the movement and helped local businesses during the holiday season. An American Express survey found that U.S. consumers spent an estimated $85 million at local retailers and restaurants since the tradition started.

Here are some Bethesda businesses — according to American Express — that you can support on Small Business Saturday:

Dining

• Uncle Julio's Rio Grande Cafe — 4870 Bethesda Ave
• Raku-An Asian Dining & Sushi — 7240 Woodmont Ave
• Passionfish 7187 — Woodmont Ave
• Medium Rare — 4904 Fairmont Ave
• Pieology Pizzeria — 4922 Elm St
• Duck Duck Goose — 7929 Norfolk Ave
• Positano Ristorante — 4948 Fairmont Ave
• Momo Chicken & Jazz — 4862 Cordell Ave
• Kapnos Kouzina — 4900 Hampden Ln
• Tout De Sweet — 7831 Woodmont Ave
• Shangrila Nepalese & Indian Restaurant — 7345 Wisconsin Ave
• Pescadeli — 4960 Bethesda Ave
• Le Vieux Logis — 7925 Old Georgetown Rd
• Manoli Canoli Restaurant — 8540 Connecticut Ave
• 4935 Bar & Kitchen — 4935 Cordell Ave
• Shanghai Village — 4929 Bethesda Ave

Shopping

• Bradley Party & Variety — 6922 Arlington Rd
• Cork 57 — 4910 Bethesda Ave
• All Fired Up Bethesda — 4923 Elm St
• Kendra Scott — 4835 Bethesda Ave
• Designer Workroom — 8123 Woodmont Ave
• Big Wheel Bikes — 6917 Arlington Rd
• Be With Me Plauseum — 7000 Wisconsin Ave
• Pet Parents — 4907 Fairmont Ave
• Current Boutique — 7220 Wisconsin Ave
• Urban Country Designs — 7121 Arlington Rd
• Daisy Baby & Kids — 4912-A Del Ray Ave
• Luna — 7232 Woodmont Ave
• Wilson Boland Design — 4334 Montgomery Ave
• Morley — 7112 Bethesda Ln
• Chevy Chase Cosmetic Center — 8401 Connecticut Ave

Services

• Bella Bethesda Salon — 4733 Elm St
• Benson Animal Hospital — 4981 Cordell Ave
• Physical Fitness Facilities — 6910 Arlington Rd
• Super Cleaners USA — 4906 Hampden Ln
• Sachi Nails — 7613 Wisconsin Ave
• Freed Photography — 4931 Cordell Ave
• Franz Sebastian Salon — 4917 Saint Elmo Ave
• Pure Skin — 4223 Leland St
• Quattro Auto Body — 4907 Elm St
• Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath — 6935 Wisconsin Ave
• Nails By Tammy — Old Georgetown Rd
• Edgemoor Custom Cleaners — 7101 Exfair Rd
• Core Studios — 8120 Woodmont Ave
• London Tailor — 7700 Wisconsin Ave
• The Red Bloom — 7215 Arlington Rd
• Sandy Nails — 7815 Old Georgetown Rd

For more businesses in Bethesda, click here.

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