This French town has created its own Amazon with a difference
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When coronavirus hit, a bunch of local businesses in Angers banded together to take on the e-commerce giant and win back shoppers for good One afternoon last week in Angers, a small city in Western France, Jonathan Berdugo was drinking coffee while keeping an eye across the street on his designer menswear boutique, VIP In Fine. Berdugo says sales are only at around 60 per cent of what they were before France imposed a nationwide quarantine on March 17, with a gradual reopening since (...)