>Ridgewood store owners report good holiday business
Friday, December 24, 2010
BY JOYCE VENEZIA SUSS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
FOR THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Shopkeepers in Ridgewood’s Central Business District are feeling a little more optimistic about holiday season sales this year, compared to bleak profits just a year ago.
Hot Jewelry Box was filled with shoppers searching for Christmas gifts earlier this week.
Ridgewood “is in line with the whole country right now: slowly recovering,” said Scott A. Lief, president of the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce. “But we are definitely light years ahead of where we were 12 months ago.”
“Business is good,” said Maral Medzadourian, who co-owns Paris Jewelers with her daughter, Talin Medzadourian Araian, although customers are not buying as much gold jewelry because gold “is going up and down. Right now, it’s about
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