Local retailers fared well over the busy week of Thanksgiving and traditional holiday shopping weekend as visitors and residents strolled around town. Ariel Johnston, who co-owns the Summit County stores Everything Colorado, Frisco Trading Post.
The people behind the Frisco Trading Post, Copper Mountain Mercantile and Everything Colorado are now venturing into the food business with True Blue Coffee & Gelato, a small shop in the Dillon Ridge Shopping Center.
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Frisco locals might have noticed a new store on Main Street reminiscent of Dillon’s Everything Colorado and Copper Mountain’s Copper Mountain Mercantile. Members of the Johnston family, who own Everything Colorado and Copper Mountain Mercantile, opened the new store, Frisco Trading Post, in November.
The three stores are owned by sisters Ariel and Alison Johnston and their father, Graeme Johnston. Ariel Johnston wrote in an email that the family calls the three shops “sister stores” as they carry similar products and have similar themes but are not exactly the same.
“We do carry some of the same items, especially the locally made items, in all of the stores, but the products do vary quite a bit, as well,” Johnston wrote.