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Local Holiday Shopping: New Canaan Toy Store

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For today’s installment of our holiday shopping series, we stopped by the New Canaan Toy Store on Monday afternoon and talked to Assistant Manager Morgan Porter. Here’s a transcription of our interview. ***

New Canaanite: How’s it going so far this holiday shopping season? Morgan Porter: It’s been picking up, getting busier as the holidays get closer. 

What kind of things are people interested in? People are now shopping for the holidays, so they’re getting board games, stocking stuffers.

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Local Holiday Shopping: The Glass House ‘Design Store’

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For this installment of our New Canaan holiday shopping series, we met on Sunday with Dominica Baharian, manager of The Glass House Design Store and the Visitor Center. The Design Store at 199 Elm St. is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Monday, and will be open those same hours Dec. 16 to 22. Here’s a transcription of our conversation.

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Local Holiday Shopping: The Adirondack Store [Q&A]

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For this installment of our local holiday shopping series, we spoke on Thursday afternoon to Stephen Shin and Christopher English, co-owners of The Adirondack Store at 39 Elm St. Here’s our interview. ***

New Canaanite: How has the holiday shopping season been for you so far? Stephen Shin: It’s extremely busy. This town is pumping.

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Local Holiday Shopping: Elm Street Books [Q&A]

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For the third installment of our local holiday shopping series, we spoke on Wednesday afternoon to Elm Street Books owner Susan Rein and manager Manda Riggs. 

Here’s our interview. ***

New Canaanite: I know it’s early in the holiday shopping season, but how’s it going so far? 

Susan Rein: It’s going. We had a great Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Getting lots of people in. My hope is it continues that way.

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Local Holiday Shopping: Franco’s Wine Merchants [Q&A]

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For today’s installment of our local holiday shopping series, we talked on Tuesday afternoon to Carl Franco of Franco’s Wine Merchants at 130 Elm St. Here’s a transcription of our interview. ***

New Canaanite: The shopping season officially kicked off on Black Friday. How’s it going in the early days here? 

Carl Franco: Usually people are a little slow right after Thanksgiving, and they always take a few days, or sometimes a week. But with Thanksgiving so late this year, I think people just realized it’s 30 days for Christmas.