Talked to a couple of the shops today. Told them we'd be doing an "unofficial" shop hop on Dec. 4. One shop will give our group a 15% discount and a small gift each. Another mentioned either a 15% or 20% discount - the owner wasn't in so she would check and let me know. All 4 shops close at 4 but one gal said if we were there longer that it wouldn't be a problem - they would stay until we were done. I will need to call them all with a final count so they make sure they have enough staff to help us. They said they didn't want us to have to wait to be helped. They were all so nice.
So far there are 5 of us. I hope we get more.