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The Westport couple recently opened Green Jar Catering at 609 Locust St. not far from Ruggles Park. Jay, a Fall River fire captain, and Carla, a 20-year veteran of the restaurant industry, said they bought the small building last November more than half a year after the Your Way breakfast and lunch restaurant, in the former Manila Jade, closed. When they first came inside to look the place over a newspaper dated March 15 was lying on the counter. The front-page story was about Gov. Charlie Baker ordering all restaurants and bars to close for at least three weeks, as a means of controlling th...

A Canadian ‘Buy Local’ Effort Fights Amazon on Its Own Turf A website called Not Amazon was created to drive sales to more than 4,000 independent stores in four cities. The initiative aims to keep expanding. Ali Haberstroh created Not Amazon, a website designed to help small businesses in Toronto that has since expanded to other Canadian cities.Credit...Chloe Ellingson for The New York Times Published Jan. 2, 2021Updated Feb. 18, 2021 TORONTO — The snow was falling outside Ali Haberstroh’s apartment in late November when the idea came to her. At the time, Canada was nea...

Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 07.34 EST In cities and towns around the world, darkened shopfronts and shuttered businesses have become an all-too-familiar symptom of the economic collapse triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. That disparity – and the mounting inequity brought into focus by the pandemic – has prompted one Canadian woman to attempt a fightback. “I just hate how much Jeff Bezos and Amazon are making billions off the backs of working-class people,” said Ali Haberstroh. “It seems to me they’re putting money over the wellbeing of people.” Haberstroh turned her ang...

Ali Haberstroh started her directory of local shops as a convenient cheat sheet for time-strapped family and friends. Two weeks later, Not Amazon exploded and now features more than 4,000 businesses. Here, Haberstroh explains why local businesses are the backbone of Toronto, her You’ve Got Mail-style beef with big-box retailers, and why her haters need to get a grip. You are a social media and content manager. How did the idea for Not Amazon come about? Nick, a friend of mine who owns Expo Vintage on Dundas, put up an Instagram post pointing to other vintage stores offering curbside pickup...