05/04/2026
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Very well said from another Small Business in Person County ❤️❤️
Hey Small Business Friends, you ok out there? 👀❤️
Among all the celebrations ahead this month, we’re starting the week sending an extra special shout of encouragement and gratitude for our small business friends. We see you out there. We know what you’re up to (and up against). We know that thing in your bones that makes you keep going - even when you’re not sure how you possibly can. We get what it means to push forward, fall back, lean in, keep grinding, keep smiling, and give it quite literally everything you’ve got. We see you and we know. Maaaan, do we know. And we hope you keep going.
To us at Butcher’s Daughter and to the small businesses we work to keep stocked in our store there’s nothing small about it. From the outside, building a small business looks a lot like living the dream, and inside often feels a little more like surviving it. It’s a no-true-days-off, never-look-away, something’s-always-broken, someone’s-always-waiting, expenses-always-rising, what-on-earth-is-next kind of life. It’s one thing to dream it and a gazillion things to DO it. It’s living unquestionably on a prayer (and another prayer and another one).
Any owner will tell you, small business isn’t built for the faint of heart. But we believe the spark of our communities lies in the little guys - the ones taking the big risks to share something special from an open door. ✨ Underneath the never-ending always seems to lie the always-worth-it. It’s the team you get to grow and love and build alongside. It’s the people who settle into the place or thing you’ve created who feel like it’s their own. It’s the customers who become friends and the crew that becomes family - a little dysfunctional, sure, but family. 😜
This National Small Business Week, we’re mighty thankful to be among you. We wish you a week and beyond filled with all the happy customers you can handle.
Be sure to keep an eye on our Stories this week as we highlight some of our favorite small business products in-store and don’t forget to shop small while you’re lovin’ on those other SPARK-lighters out there - Teachers, Nurses, Moms and more. Whew, there’s a lot out there to appreciate! 🙏🏼