“If in January 2020 you told me that in two months’ time my shop would be selling nothing but I’d be making over $100,000 on Etsy, I’d tell you, you were nuts,” Jenner told me. “I had never even heard of Etsy.”
Like Jenner, tens of thousands of store owners watched in horror as sales vanished. And for many, they never came back. During the first six months of the pandemic, U.S. e-commerce sales jumped 40.7%, while in-store revenue fell 2.7%.
It would be easy to brush that off as an acceleration of commerce’s relentless migration to the internet. But there’s much more to it than that. The line between in-store and online is blurring, driven in part by pivot-or-perish stories like Jenner’s helping to write the playbook for mom-and-pop success in the post-pandemic era.
Je ne regrette rien won t do, M. Macron
Dr. Dania Koleilat Khatib
January 24, 2021 19:32
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech to the French Bakery and Pastry Federation members next to the traditional epiphany cake, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France January 13, 2021. (Reuters)
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With the brutal words “no repentance nor apologies,” Emmanuel Macron stated his position on the Algerian War and the abuses that came with colonization. Instead, the French president would take part in “symbolic acts” aimed at promoting reconciliation, his office declared.
The eight-year war of independence, in which an estimated 1 million Algerians gave their lives in order to kick out a loathsome occupation that lasted 132 years, is still a thorn in the relations between the two countries, as well as in the ties between France and its citizens of Algerian origin. Macron is already facing a problem with the Muslim/Arab community in France, m
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94 Twin Cities restaurants that closed in 2020
Pandemic, riots devastated the food-and-drink scene in the Twin Cities this year. December 28, 2020 9:50am
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