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-Information courtesy the Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce

The Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce is working with local retail stores and restaurants to develop a new e-gift card program. The Chamber partnered with the Gift Fly company to make this process easy for local business owners in an effort to generate some additional business commerce in the city and county.

Citizens who want to shop online with local businesses can go to the Chamber’s website at www.hendersonvance.org, click on the tab “Shop E-Gift Card” at the top of the home page and view the list of local businesses who have signed on to the program. Three local businesses: Franklin Brothers Nursery and Greenhouses, Sadie’s Coffee Corner and The Home Decorator Shoppe have already signed up to participate and accept the e-gift cards.

More businesses will be added this week, just in time for Mother’s Day shopping and Teacher Appreciation Week.

If you are a business owner who wants to sign up – click this link: https://www.giftfly.com/?affiliate_code=WZS0-W7IM-75A1

Example of how the e-gift card program works:

When a citizen wants to give a gift to honor their child’s teacher next week for Teacher Appreciation Week, for example, they would go to the Chamber’s website, click on the shop tab, put in the amount they want to spend, put in the teacher’s email address, add a thank you message to him/her, add their own personal credit card number and hit send.

The e-gift card and thank you message immediately gets sent to the teacher’s email box. The teacher then prints out the e-gift card and takes it with them to that store at a later time to shop.