Grandparents Day Gift Guide · Sunday, September 13
The frame, the candle, the mug with the year on it: they have those. What they do not have is a reason to try the new place on the corner. Give a Shop Local Bloomington Digital Gift Card, good at over 40 independent businesses around Bloomington. Then go with them.
Not money, and not another object for the shelf. A morning at the diner, a browse through the bookshop, coffee that turns into an hour.
over 40 independent businesses in Bloomington. Their pick, not your guess.
What they spend goes to the Bloomington businesses they already walk past, not to a national chain.
These Bloomington businesses accept the Bloomington Digital Gift Card. Let them decide which one.
The diner, the bakery counter, the coffee place around Bloomington where nobody rushes you out.
Food & Dining
4501 East Bethel Lane, Bloomington, Indiana, 47408
Food & Dining
113 N Dunn Street, Bloomington, Indiana, 47408
Food & Dining
913 S College Mall Rd, Bloomington, Indiana, 47401
Food & Dining
902 W Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, Indiana, 47404
Food & Dining
338 S Walnut Street, Bloomington, Indiana, 47401
Food & Dining
116 S. Indiana Ave, Bloomington, Indiana, 47408
Bookshops, antique stores, garden centers. The kind of browse that fills an afternoon.
Retail
1535 S Piazza Dr, Bloomington, Indiana, 47401
Retail
101 W. Kirkwood, Bloomington, Indiana, 47404
Retail
112 S College, Bloomington, Indiana, 47404
Retail
208 S Dunn St, Unit 102, Bloomington, Indiana, 47408
Retail
116 N Walnut St, Bloomington, Indiana, 47404
Retail
115 S. Walnut St., Bloomington, Indiana, 47404
Museums, galleries, a show around Bloomington. Better as a plan than as a package.
Entertainment
114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, Indiana, 47408
Arts & Culture
1516 W Edinburgh Bend, Bloomington, Indiana, 47403
Arts & Culture
114 S. Grant St., Bloomington, Indiana, 47408
Arts & Culture
308 W 4th St., Bloomington, Indiana, 47404
Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13, so a Shop Local Bloomington Digital Gift Card is waiting in their inbox that morning.
Pick the amount that feels right.
Say where you two should go.
Delivered by email, or print it to hand over. No shipping, no wrapping.
National Grandparents Day falls on the first Sunday after Labor Day, which makes it Sunday, September 13 in 2026. It has been a federal observance in the U.S. since 1978.
The Shop Local Bloomington Digital Gift Card is accepted at over 40 independent businesses in Bloomington: restaurants, cafés, bakeries, shops, and salons. They pick where and when.
Then this is probably the wrong gift for them, and it is worth saying so plainly. The Shop Local Bloomington Digital Gift Card is redeemable only at local businesses in Bloomington, so it suits someone who lives in or regularly visits the area. A grandparent who visits now and then can spend it on this trip. Unused balances can incur inactivity fees: a $3.00 fee will be deducted monthly starting on the 1st day after 12 consecutive months without card usage.
Choose an amount, add a note, and send it by email, or print it to hand over in person. Nothing ships.
Yes. Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13.
Often that is exactly who buys it. It works the same way in that direction, as long as the grandchild is close enough to spend it at businesses in Bloomington.
E-delivery fees vary by community, and some communities cover them. Whatever applies to your order is shown at checkout before you pay, alongside the card amount and your total.
A Shop Local Bloomington Digital Gift Card they can spend at over 40 independent Bloomington businesses. Sent by email. Spent down the street.
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