Yelp: Providence 11th best city for shopping local during the holidays

PROVIDENCE is one of the top cities in the country for shopping local this holiday season, according to Yelp. Pictured is the gift shop Frog & Toad, which was one of the top local shopping destinations listed on the Yelp website. / COURTESY FACEBOOK
PROVIDENCE is one of the top cities in the country for shopping local this holiday season, according to Yelp. Pictured is the gift shop Frog & Toad, which was one of the top local shopping destinations listed on the Yelp website. / COURTESY FACEBOOK

PROVIDENCE – Providence is the 11th best city in the country for shopping local this holiday season, according to Yelp, which said it analyzed millions of online reviews on its website to come up with its findings.

Yelp listed 20 cities for shopping local, with Philadelphia topping the list.
Honolulu; Seattle; Oakland, Calif.; and Portland, Ore., rounded out the top five. Las Vegas was 20th on the list.

To determine the list, Yelp said it created a “gifting score” for each city by looking at reviews mentioning the word “gift” at businesses in specific shopping categories that are popular for holiday. Cities were then ranked based on the “gifting score,” Yelp said.

A Yelp and Harris Poll survey found that 64 percent of Americans will shop local this holiday season, representing more than 150 million people. It also found that millennials are most likely to shop local, with nearly seven in 10 Americans ages 18 to 34 saying they plan to shop for the holidays at local businesses, more than any other age group.

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And, the survey discovered that each local shopper plans to spend an average of $258.

As for local shopping spots in Rhode Island’s capital city, stores singled out on the list include Queen of Hearts on Westminster Street, a women’s clothing and shoe store; Frog and Toad on Hope Street, a gift shop; Cellar Stories on Mathewson Street, a book shop; and Armageddon Shop on Broadway, a music and DVD store.

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