“Keep your business in town and your town in business” –
Monaghan Town’s commercial community has come together to unveil a stellar range of special offers in their stores from tomorrow, Friday November 29 as part of the now firmly established Black Friday retail drive designed to get the vital end-of-year trading season off to a flying start.
A wide range of outlets and service providers have prepared some alluring offers for their customers that accent value for money, backed up by the high quality of customer care that traditionally denotes the commercial environment of the county capital. The ethos of the Monaghan Town Team’s retail promotion campaign for Christmas – “Keep your business in town, keep your town in business” – will be very much to the fore across the wide range of participating Monaghan stores and services tomorrow and in the days that follow. The discriminating shopper is advised to peruse the advertisements arrayed over these pages in order to plan their Black Friday experience.
But they should bear in mind that in many cases this is not a one-day-only opportunity and many stores will be extending their special value offers over the coming weekend and even into the days beyond. Black Friday has come to form the launchpad for the time of the business year that has a vital bearing on the annual prosperity of those engaged in the retail and service sector. It is designed to give shoppers a boost of bargains preparatory to the Christmas holiday period and forms an important component of the co-ordinated commercial activity that is set to reach peak level in the coming weeks.
The sense of an official starting gun being fired for Christmas trading this week was initiated last Sunday when the county capital’s Christmas lights array was officially switched on at the conclusion of a memorable programme of fun and entertainment which brought thousands of people to Church Square. The productive coalition of commercial, community and local government stakeholders in optimising the environment for business in Monaghan Town for the essential trading weeks ahead is a local characteristic….
