Not sure how useful this is, maybe in #Woodbridge and #Southwold there are enough retired Boomers clued up enough to use a smartphone who wander around walking doggos etc that it /might/ bring in some business and wouldn't increase risks (as those folk would be wandering around anyway), but it would surely make more sense for these independent businesses (maybe working as a group) to develop indie websites, keep them updated and respond to customers who use them?
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/business/qr-codes-for-digital-window-shopping-trialled-1-6928258
@vfrmedia Good at least they're trying something 👍
@kravietz although I keep looking on the local newspaper site for the "Shop Local" campaign for Suffolk and half the links are broken and it doesn't even seem to have its own website (although Archant who is running the campaign is perpetually struggling with their website and has been for about 10-20 years, even more so as they overload it with adtech to the point its unusable without an ad blocker..)
@kravietz also Archant is completely dependent on ad revenue from adtech companies based across Northern Europe (its why they tend to have a neoliberal but very slightly centre-left and anti-Brexit political outlook, although East Anglia is unusual as most of the better off older people are pro-Europe, its the younger folk who are the angry vocal Brexit supporters...