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Local shops stock shelves anticipate increased sales
GETTING READY FOR THE BIG HOMECOMING GAME against Iowa State University might leave you searching for some last minute purchases.
With the large crowds expected for the weekend, some area businesses are scrambling to attract customers. Some store owners will decorate their windows with more crimson and blue than usual.
For instance, who can live without one's very own KU football helmet phone to make all the last minute reservations for the game. It's only $79.99 and is sure to add school spirit to your living room.
For more extravagant types, how about a $350 KU leather jacket? Maybe you'd prefer something smaller, like a nifty KU musical key chain or a Kansas alumni license plate frame.
Perhaps you'd like a KU golf bag complete with Jayhawk head covers to show off at the country club.
From red and blue sweatshirts to KU banners and flags, Jayhawk Spirit offers a little bit of everything in KU apparel. Located at 935 Massachusetts St., the store's owners hope it will be a hot spot for out-of-town visitors looking to don their former school's colors.
"We tend to overstock sweatshirts and T-shirts for homecoming weekend," Ryan Crum, an employee at Jayhawk Spirit said.
Jayhawk Spirit offers more than just sweatshirts
and T-shirts, though. The store's theme is KU pride, and everything from KU shot glasses to stuffed jayhawks fill the shelves.
It is the store's uniqueness that attracts many people, Crum said. Everybody from crazed KU fans to former teachers shop in the store. It is an opportunity to showcase some different KU items that might not be found in other stores.
Crum said homecoming was a good time for students to bring their parents to the store so that the parents can get gift ideas, Crum said.
Jayhawk Spirit is one of the few stores taking extra measures in preparation for homecoming weekend.
For some stores, it is just another home-game weekend.
Sports Fan-Attic, 942 Massachusetts St., offers miniature KU footballs and a wide variety of KU hats and jackets. The store is discounting some items this weekend, especially because of the increased traffic homecoming brings. "We'll be bringing in more sweatshirts and KU jackets that weekend, but it is more for the change in season than anything else," an employee at Sports Fan-Attics said.
To be sure, there will be more shoppers roaming the streets. So some stores are bringing in temporary workers.
—BY ERIC SCHROEDER
Carol Thobae/KANSAN
Shelley Burkhart, Wichita sophomore, adjusts the KU merchandise in the window of Jayhawk Spirit.
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