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Alternative Black Friday Shopping

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)
Published November 25, 2016 at 11:37 AM HST
Barrio Vintage
Barrio Vintage

Many people will be headed to malls today for Black Friday sales.  But there are an assortment of alternative shopping choices popping up this year. 

On O‘ahu, Chinatown merchants and restaurants are hosting the 2nd annual Downtown Shop Around. Downtown boutiques are hosting trunk sales and discounts… while restaurants offer shoppers discounts for their support of merchants.  Bradley Rhea is co-owner of Barrio Vintage clothing store.

Yukiko Matsuoka / Flickr
Credit Yukiko Matsuoka / Flickr

Patagonia shops are expanding their environmental commitment by pledging all black Friday proceeds to grassroots environmental groups.  Corey Simpson works in Patagonia’s Ventura headquarters.

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Patagonia’s black Friday proceeds will go to the “one-percent for the planet” initiative which distributes donations from a collective of companies.
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Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)
Nick Yee’s passion for music developed at an early age, as he collected jazz and rock records pulled from dusty locations while growing up in both Southern California and Honolulu. In college he started DJing around Honolulu, playing Jazz and Bossa Nova sets at various lounges and clubs under the name dj mr.nick. He started to incorporate Downtempo, House and Breaks into his sets as his popularity grew, eventually getting DJ residences at different Chinatown locations. To this day, he is a fixture in the Honolulu underground club scene, where his live sets are famous for being able to link musical and cultural boundaries, starting mellow and building the audience into a frenzy while steering free of mainstream clichés.
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