Christmas Shopping

Posted by Kirsten Gibbs
Last updated 10th December 2020
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  • We may have to Christmas shop online this year, but that doesn't have to mean Amazon or Ebay.

    I've shopped at plenty of independent, customer-focused SME businesses this year.  The experience has been great (apart from the odd hiccup or misunderstanding).  There are plenty of them around, just not on the high street, or the first page of Google.

    Here's my list - check them out, and then tell me yours.

    For food basics:

    • Hodmedods - pulses, grains, flours, bread, cookbooks.
    • Raybel Charters - olive oil, coffee, sugar, almonds, chocolate.  Check out other local food and Sail Cargo shops on the site too.  The chocolate from New Dawn traders is delicious and postable.
    • Oddbox - a weekly fruit and veg box of rescued crops.
    • Good Club - dry goods, tins, cleaning and bath products

    For the allotment:

    Books:

    • News From Nowhere - my default place to search for books of all kinds - fiction, business and cookbooks.   The only one I haven't been able to find is mine (available here).
    • The Do Book Co - small, actionable books.

    Housewares

    Clothes:

    For the business:

    For the extension:

    Where have your favourite shops been this year?

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