Columbia’s “mom-and-pop hippie shop” has kept its doors open for more than two decades because it offers customers something online shopping and self-checkout kiosks can’t.
“We offer a human interaction,” James “Don” McCallister said Tuesday from his Five Points boutique, Loose Lucy’s. The polychromatic portal to the past offers tie-dyed clothing, tapestries, Grateful Dead posters and jewelry — all set against a classic rock soundtrack and the pervasive smell of incense.
“There is no reason people can’t get any of this stuff online.”McCallister is confident that he and his employees are safe, for now, from automation eliminating their jobs. Loyal customers […]
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