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Ho, ho, hum: Maine shoppers, stores predict a so-so holiday season

Por: Portland Press Herald Business November 20, 2022

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Luna, 3, and Diana Porta of Portland leave the L.L.Bean flagship store in Freeport, where they were shopping on Friday. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer Abby Labrecque of Saco browsed the display at Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops in Freeport on Friday morning. She had done most of her holiday shopping online in 2020 and 2021, but now she had an L.L.Bean bag in one hand and potential stocking stuffers in the other. “I’m trying... + full article



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