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 Chattanooga Express Card, good at over 50 independent businesses around Chattanooga. 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 50 independent businesses in Chattanooga. Their pick, not your guess.
What they spend goes to the Chattanooga businesses they already walk past, not to a national chain.
These Chattanooga businesses accept the Chattanooga Express Card. Let them decide which one.
The diner, the bakery counter, the coffee place around Chattanooga where nobody rushes you out.
Food & Dining
400 East Main Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37408
Food & Dining
728 Market St, Suite 112C, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402
Food & Dining
14 W Kent St, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37405
Food & Dining
55 E. Main St, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37408
Food & Dining
11 East 7th Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402
Food & Dining
526 E. MLK BLVD, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37403
Bookshops, antique stores, garden centers. The kind of browse that fills an afternoon.
Retail
40 Frazier Ave, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37405
Retail
301 Manufacturer's Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37405
Retail
313 Manufacturers Rd, Suite 103, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37405
Retail
1110 Market Street, No. 109, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402
Museums, galleries, a show around Chattanooga. Better as a plan than as a package.
Arts & Culture
200 E. Martin Luther King Blvd, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37403
Services
701 Broad St, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402
Services
PO Box 4023, 400 River Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37405
Arts & Culture
409 Broad Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402
Arts & Culture
321 Chestnut Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402
Arts & Culture
201 HIGH ST., Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37403
The barber, the salon, a wellness stop close to home. Time that is theirs.
Beauty & Wellness
307 Manufacturers Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37405
Beauty & Wellness
13 w Kent street suite 102, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37405
Beauty & Wellness
16 Patten Parkway, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402
Beauty & Wellness
423 E. MLK Blvd , Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37403
Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13, so a Chattanooga Express 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 Chattanooga Express Card is accepted at over 50 independent businesses in Chattanooga: 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 Chattanooga Express Card is redeemable only at local businesses in Chattanooga, 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 Chattanooga.
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 Chattanooga Express Card they can spend at over 50 independent Chattanooga businesses. Sent by email. Spent down the street.
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