Market Basket : Granger church opens bookstore, cafe

Gifted, Gifts of Joy and Shelly's Angel Photography will be located at Center City Place, 225 S. Michigan St.

The temporary stores are expected to open their doors Nov. 2 and remain open through the holidays.

Next week, we hope to take you behind-the-scenes as these businesses feverishly work to open their new shops in less than two weeks.

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If you are planning to shop Black Friday and will have a smartphone on you, we invite you to be a member of our reporting team.

Tell us via e-mail what makes you such a diehard Black Friday shopper, and you could be selected to be part of our special team that will post online updates and tweet from the lines.

E-mail your shopper bio to hprescott@sbtinfo.com. The team will be featured in an upcoming column.

Have you heard?

A new storefront in downtown South Bend will feature the archeological finds of its local owner. Mark Tarner, president of South Bend Chocolate Co., plans to open The Dino Store in downtown South Bend in a few weeks behind his downtown cafe. ... Speaking of South Bend Chocolate, the local company has received the 2012 Indiana Main Street Business of the Year Award from the Indiana Main Street Program, a statewide program that encourages the revitalization and restoration of downtown areas in Indiana cities and towns. ... Join our next live chat at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at www.southbendtribune.com.

Heidi Prescott's column runs on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. When she's not shopping, contact her at hprescott@sbtinfo.com or 574-235-6070. You can also talk retail at Facebook.com/thebasket and at Twitter.com/marketbasket.