
This online marketplace wants New Yorkers to ditch Amazon and shop local
CNN
New York's local businesses were hit hard by the pandemic, so one Israeli immigrant, now a Brooklyn resident, created an online marketplace to bring life back to the city's struggling stores.
When Covid-19 hit the United States last year, Maya Komerov saw shoppers flock to Amazon (AMZN) at the expense of the small businesses in their neighborhoods. So she used her background in tech and previous experience working with local shop owners to build ShopIN.NYC, an e-commerce platform for local shopping in New York City. How it began
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