- June 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A local boutique is pushing ahead after being looted and nearly losing it all. Small businesses are still very much struggling to dig out of more than a year of closures and cutbacks.
The message is this: the city is open, and small businesses still very much need the support.
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“There was glass everywhere,” Kin Boutique owner Joey Clark said.
Just over a year ago, Kin Boutique was one of many Philadelphia shops looted as riots broke out in the city and across the nation in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. It was hit on top of mounting COVID-19 closures.
“There were days that I was downstairs crying, like how am I going to keep going? How am I going to do this?” Clark said.
In August last year, Yelp reported more than 1,000 Philadelphia-area businesses permanently closed.
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