Asheville: Best local shopping

Like to shop local? Yelp released its 2018 top 20 cities to shop locally. Asheville, North Carolina, ranked second on the list, behind Laguna Beach, California.

To develop the ranking, Yelp delved into its own data in the categories of shopping, beauty/spas and food, looking at the time period from Thanksgiving through Christmas from the last five years. Yelp permitted only one winning city per state.

Below are the top seven from the complete list.

1. Laguna Beach, CA

2. Asheville, NC

3. Lahaina, HI

4. Santa Fe, NM

5. Cleveland, OH

6. Portland, OR

7. New Orleans, LA

– Deneen Bloom, S&A Communications