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New Canaan Holiday Shopping: Stewart’s Wine & Spirits [Q&A]

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For today’s installment in our local holiday shopping series, we spoke to Larry Klem, manager at Stewart’s Wine & Spirits, 215 Elm St. Here’s a transcription of our conversation. ***

New Canaanite: Tell me a little bit about how the shopping season’s gone here at the wine shop

Larry Klem: It’s going pretty well. We had a really good November. It started out a little slow, but things by mid-November were ramping up and we had a great holiday week.

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Local Businesses Q&A: Walter Stewart’s Market and Stewarts Wine & Spirits

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Today’s installment of our Q&A series with a local business is with Doug Stewart Walter Stewart’s Market and Stewarts Wine & Spirits on Elm Street. Here’s our exchange:

New Canaanite: Doug, you’re very plugged into the local business community, as an owner of one of New Canaan’s best-established businesses, a member of the Chamber of Commerce board and a resident yourself. What is your sense of consumer demand this holiday shopping season, and of the health of our local business community? Doug Stewart: A main draw to New Canaan is our vibrant, charming downtown. With so many new families in town now and the holiday season there is a lot of great energy in New Canaan.