Celebrate Pink Friday 2025: Shopping Local is More Important Than Ever

 This holiday season, we're celebrating the spirit of the season by exploring our member boutiques--some of Lakeland’s most unique shops and retail spaces. The Lakeland Chamber of Commerce is proud to host our annual Pink Friday: Boutique Blitz on November 21, 2025.  

Pink Friday is an annual nationwide movement used to support local businesses on the Friday before Thanksgiving. The goal is to encourage shoppers to support small businesses first during the holiday season. In a recent survey of Lakeland Chamber members, only 55% said they intended to shop local this holiday season. We encourage you to expand your horizons and BuyLakeland!

Join us on Pink Friday and shop 'til you drop in one full day of community celebration, relationship building, and refreshments at eight participating local chamber-member boutiques:

• Amelia Page Boutique
• Bungalow Boutique & Gifts
• East of These
• Gaines Jewelers
• Tennessee Jane Boutique 
• The Modern Pearl
• Top Buttons Boutique
• 8.28 Boutique

Shopping locally is extremely important in developing a flourishing community. Economic impacts like supporting local jobs and boosting the local economy, as well as environmental benefits such as reducing your carbon footprint, are just a few of the positives that come from shopping local. 

Pink Friday is inspired by The Shop Small movement—one that supports small, independent businesses and spotlights their valuable contributions to their communities and the economy. The Shop Small movement was developed in participation with Small Business Saturday®, a day founded by American Express in 2010 on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Now a national holiday, Small Business Saturday is dedicated to celebrating small businesses by helping to drive more customers through the doors of retail stores, restaurants, fitness studios, salons — and everything in between. Since its inception, this initiative has generated an estimated $201 billion in reported spending at small businesses across all 50 states.

As we head into the holiday season, let’s come together to celebrate Lakeland’s vibrant small business community and the people who make it thrive. Join the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce in making this year’s Pink Friday: Boutique Blitz a celebration of community, connection, and local pride.

#BuyLakeland

RSVP here: https://bit.ly/48TZDRQ