(iStock) Local entrepreneurs are exploring different ways to help out an in-demand niche market: makers and retailers that want to continue selling their goods while their customers stay at home. In response to recent event postponements and the stay-at-home order, Meredith Waguespack and Sarah Guidry have launched a virtual marketplace— LocalPopUp.Shop —where Louisiana makers can showcase inventories of the goods they had created for the typically high revenue-generating upcoming spring and festival seasons. The website is essentially a virtual extension of Local Pop Up Shop, created by Waguespack and Guidry in late 2018, which hosts an annual Holiday Shopping […]
