Online, mail order and phone shopping by Wrangell households and businesses last year totaled around $7.5 million, which averages out close to $4,000 for every person living in town.
That is a stunningly large amount of money.
And a large opportunity.
Not that residents could find every item, or even most items, on that $7.5 million shopping list in town. But if they could shift just 10% of online shopping to in-town shopping, that would equate to about $2,000 a day in additional spending at local businesses.
That is a lot of money in a small town.
Here’s the math: The borough in the past fisc...
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