Word: gabai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard for the small, independent store to compete with the powerful chains," Le Foot Sportif owner Hezi Gabai says. "It would be pitiful to see the small store go, no matter if it is here or downtown on Main...
Even as recently as seven years ago, when Gabai opened Le Foot Sportif, the Square had a more eccentric feel...
...changed. We moved from the record to the CD-ROM age and you can tell," Gabai says. "It was a hippie crowd back then and now the crowd is still funky, but more sophisticated...
...Foot Sportif's Gabai and other small business owners gaze monthly at their losses, they say they are comforted by one fact: in the end it is the consumer who will decide whether the Square becomes a mall or whether small business like their own will continue to figure prominently in the local landscape...
...sophisticated consumer if they want to support the small, independent store or the big chain," Gabai says. "The verdict is in their hands...