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Portland’s Little Boxes celebration is an alternative to both Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. No offense, but small, independent merchants can’t be relegated to one day, the event’s organizers appropriately believed. The last time we checked in on Little Boxes (if you haven’t figured out the name, “little boxes” is the opposite of “big box”), there were about 90 merchants participating. This year,  over 200 of Portland’s independently and neighborhood (and as with all things Portland, hip) shops are participating in the two-day event. They have developed an app and games–with some pretty incredible prizes–that shoppers can win just by taking a stroll in Portland’s best shopping districts. Thanks to the Little Boxes website, here are 200+ great places to shop local in Portland today, tomorrow and throughout the year.


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