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Obama Shops 'Small Business Saturday' At Washington Bookstore, Popular Popsicle Shop

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 28 Nov, 2015 02:33 PM

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is keeping tradition to support small businesses.

Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited Upshur Street Books in Washington's Petworth neighbourhood Saturday.

The three skimmed books in the fiction section of the dimly lit store with bright green walls and miniature Christmas lights hung on the ceiling. The president emerged from the store with a brown shopping bag full of books.

The trio moved to the Adams Morgan neighbourhood for a stop at Pleasant Pops cafe and market, where the president treated his daughters to fresh fruit popsicles.

Obama has shopped other Washington bookstores including Kramerbooks and Politics and Prose on "Small Business Saturday." The Saturday after Thanksgiving is designed to drive business to mom and pop shops between the Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday deals.

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