PHOTOS: Small Business Saturday 2012 in Northfield

Shoppers flocked to downtown Northfield on Saturday to support local shop owners for the third annual Small Business Saturday.

Many Northfield businesses offered discounts up to 20 percent or more off of items to highlight the day. Shoppers scurried from store to store along Division Street on Saturday morning and afternoon to check out merchandise and deals.

During the past two decades, small businesses have created 65 percent of net new jobs and for every $100 spent in locally owned, independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expenditures, according to the Small Business Saturday website.

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