Independent Hartlepool traders sign up to Amazon style one-stop online shop

A new website has been created to provide a one-stop online platform where Hartlepool businesses can sell direct to customers.
By Mark Payne
Published 2nd Nov 2020, 07:00 BST
Updated 13th Nov 2020, 10:37 BST
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BuyLocalHartlepool.co.uk has been created by community interest company The Big League and features smaller firms that don’t have their own website alongside more established names.

Dan McGovern, who built the site, said: "We know that it's easier for consumers to buy from the online retail giants that monopolise the market, but BuyLocalHartlepool.co.uk will make it just as easy for people to buy from Hartlepool retailers, giving small businesses a bite of the online retail cherry."

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Bonnie Pinder from The Sensory Spot, which sells products for people with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, Autism and ADHD, said: "As a small business without having the resources to start our own online store, BuyLocalHartlepool allows us to sell to our customers online that we wouldn't have been able to reach otherwise".

Stacey Caldwell of Candy Cones XO (top left), Georgia Cook of Bark and Bone (right) and The Sensory Spot (bottom left) are using the Buy Local Hartlepool website to sell their products and services.Stacey Caldwell of Candy Cones XO (top left), Georgia Cook of Bark and Bone (right) and The Sensory Spot (bottom left) are using the Buy Local Hartlepool website to sell their products and services.
Stacey Caldwell of Candy Cones XO (top left), Georgia Cook of Bark and Bone (right) and The Sensory Spot (bottom left) are using the Buy Local Hartlepool website to sell their products and services.

Stacey Caldwell from hospitality business CandyConesXO said she is adapting and putting together Christmas bundles to sell online.

Georgia Cook from Bark and Bone dog grooming business said the site will allow her to reach her customers and offer them pet treats and accessories she would otherwise not have been able to sell.

She added: "I hope that my customers will also stumble across products from other small businesses that they buy.

"This way we can all help each other by using the site."

Stacey Caldwell of Candy Cones XO.Stacey Caldwell of Candy Cones XO.
Stacey Caldwell of Candy Cones XO.
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Councillor Paddy Brown praised the initiative saying it could mean the difference between a small business sinking or swimming.

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