Shopping Local in Plaid

This is the day I've vowed to get at least part of my summary report for my Life Style Project online, but first I thought I'd say something about Black Friday, which I avoided by observing Buy Nothing Day.  Apparently there's a shop local movement that goes beyond food to merchandise.  It's not the same thing, of course, because a small local store doesn't necessarily have merchandise that was made locally!  Still, it's an effort to support local merchants, as we like to support bookstores that aren't chains even if all the books in them are made in China. 

The headline for the San Francisco Chronicle today (besides the announcement of the death of Larry Hagman, who played J.R., who didn't live sustainably there in Dallas) is "Black Friday spreemuch less frenzied/Longer buying binge, shop-local events ease the crush" by Carrie Kirby and Vivian Ho.  It shows a shopper clad in plaid.  Here's the link, but I'm disappointed because the picture of the plaid-clad shopper isn't featured.  You'll have to go through a slide show to get to the picture of him that's shown o the hard copy of the SFChronicle front page:

n unidentifed manager (center) refuses entry to a group of demonstrators, including three fired employees, during a rally at the Walmart store in Richmond, Calif. on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 to protest against poor working conditions and the termination of several employees. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle / SF

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Black-Friday-starts-early-mellows-out-4061686.php#ixzz2DA3zojEl

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Black-Friday-madness-came-and-went-by-dawn-4061686.php#photo-3784378

The SF Chronicle article includes a lot of pictures of the protesters and even one of Representatie Goerge Miller offering support to them.  But there's absolutely no indication that any shopper turned away because they didn't want to break a picket line.  In fact, in the article there's a reference to a shopper who said she supported the workers but was shopping there anyway:

"Mary Sheila, 37, of Richmond didn't pause as she pushed a car with her pruchases out of the store, but she said she supported the workers.  'May thoughts go to the workers,' she said. 'I'm also a wowrker, and I feel how they feel.'"
\So her thoughts go with the workers, but her money goes to the store they're boycotting!

There are 31 photos online with the link I've given above, but the one of the local shopper is the very last.