Online startup offers local shopping experience
Craig Hanson’s idea for Thriving Locally, an online marketplace with all local products, came to him in 2010 in downtown Nanaimo’s quaint, rustic Old City Organics. The store had only recently opened its doors when blond-haired, blue-eyed Hanson walked in to peruse their wares. With the elderly shopkeeper eagerly looking on, Hanson was left to his own devices without another soul in the … Continued