Benji’s, an Ancoats-based online homeware shop, still feels hopeful. The 25-year-old business owner said: “We just can’t compete.
Amazon is so great in that I ordered some pens yesterday and they’re here this morning.“But when someone messages us, it’s only ever us answering, it’s us packing up the boxes, us choosing what we sell and us taking it to the post office.“When we get a sale we do a dance.
It’s a joy that someone has come to us and not a big company.”He added: “We’ve seen so many things on Instagram saying ‘shop small’.
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