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Letter: Click shopping - Loss of community (and it may make you look fat)

To the editor:

As a small business owner in Lake City, this year more than ever, I’m feeling this new effect on businesses. It is called “Click vs. Brick.”

I first heard this term coined on CNN one morning while I was getting ready to go and open my business. The click is the online shopping and the brick is the brick and mortar stores. They said that it was affecting the holiday sales in the large retail stores, so you can imagine the concern that I had hearing that.

If the big guys are struggling, how hard is it for the little guys like us in Lake City.

 


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