Retail is Alabama’s top private employer, a top revenue generator and a builder of community. Plan to spend your holiday shopping, dining and leisure dollars locally throughout this holiday season. And thank Alabama retailers and their staff for all they do to make your holidays bright.
When you shop Alabama, you support your friends and neighbors, you strengthen your local economy AND you invest in the vibrancy of your community.
Help Alabama businesses thrive. Local businesses, which give your community its special flair, have already begun their holiday promotions and deals. Don’t leave them off your list.
Join the Shop Alabama for the Holidays movement and share the hashtag #ShopAlabama throughout the 2023 holiday season.
Looking to shop local, here are some upcoming holiday shopping events in Alabama:
5 – 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5: Dickens Downtown, Northport. Live music, period costumes and shopping.
5 – 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7: Retail Trail, downtown Tuscaloosa. Find holiday-themed items, discounts, and much more on the streets of downtown Tuscaloosa! You might even see Buddy the Elf!
6 – 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8: Christmas in a Railroad Town, Opelika. Live music, shopping, pictures with Santa and more!
5 – 8 p.m. Thursdays through Dec. 21: Main Street Fort Payne. Participating downtown merchants are staying open until 8 to offer special sales or discounts inside their stores.
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, and Sunday, Dec. 10: Holly Days on Main Festival, arts and crafts vendors, special performances, a lighted boat parade and more at The Wharf, Orange Beach.
10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9: Christmas on Main in Fyffe.
2 – 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9: Christmas on Main in Oxford. Sales, promotions, horse and carriage strolls, live entertainment, movies at Simmons Park and a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.
5 – 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12: Prattville Main Street Christmas. Shop local businesses for the perfect Christmas gift and then enjoy horse-drawn carriage rides, carolers, hot chocolate and cookies, children’s make-and-take art projects, dancers, music and more, plus a visit from Santa!
5 – 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15: Wetumpka’s Downtown Dickens Christmas. Walk (or ride in a horse-drawn carriage) around Wetumpka’s historic business district and complete your holiday shopping while being immersed in a Victorian Christmas, complete with carolers and musicians, period costumes and Father Christmas.
Email us your events and we’ll add them here.