Leah and David Knight, owners of Homewood-based Bandwagon, are the Alabama Retail Association’s 2024 Gee Emerging Retailers of the Year. The sports boutique, specializing in custom community apparel as well as lifestyle apparel for toddlers through adults, opened in 2021. It caters to teams of all ages at its three stores – Homewood and Vestavia […]

Alabamians, like the rest of the nation, have already begun their holiday shopping to ensure they can get the gifts they want and that those gifts arrive on time. Through September, Alabama consumers had spent almost 8% more than they did in 2019, based on Alabama Revenue Department reports on all state-taxed sales. That growth […]