Between the doorbuster deals of Black Friday and the online traffic of Cyber Monday, there's day dedicated to the little stores.
Small Business Saturday is a day for shoppers to take a day off from the major national retailers and spend money at locally owned businesses. The holiday was launched by American Express in 2010 to support mom-and-pop shops.
Economists say it's the best way to keep retail dollars from leaving town. Nearly 100-million people participated last year.
Two people are dead and four wounded in a series of Black Friday shootings at shopping malls across the country. Police say a Thanksgiving night argument over a parking spot at a Reno Walmart left one man dead in Nevada.
Another person died and his brother injured in a shooting early Friday morning in front of Macy's at the Hamilton Mall near Atlantic City.
Three people were shot in two separate incidents in Tennessee. None of those injuries are considered life threatening.
