![]() The experience of reading anonymous confessions is both intimate and detached. "I once bumped someone's phone when it was charging and it fell off a table and cracked and I just walked away." "My initial connection to the majority of my partners is based on superficial sexism." OSAM’s Facebook page is the best gateway to new information as it comes in."I feel like I can justify the worst things I've done." She plans to post videos of individual booths, and you can find some of the mall’s vendors on Kijiji. ![]() Reitan put the call out to the OSMA Facebook community to ask for suggestions in the new reality, new plans including shipping, curb-side pickup, auctions and gift certificates. “We feed a lot of that to our vendors as well, you know, estate sales and stuff like that, to the vendors who deal in those areas.” OSAM then takes a 15 per cent commission off everything sold, which pays for staff, utilities, insurance and promotions. The way the business works, “The vendors’ rent pays our rent,” Reitan explains. “I love it when people call up and ask, ‘Do you have an inventory of items in your store?’ Reitan can’t even estimate the number of items in the store. There’s no master list browsing in person is the point.Īnd each effectively anonymous vendor relies on the OSAM as a gateway. Every busy booth is completely different and, despite its particular curatorial air, random. People saying we were being irresponsible, we were not an essential service, and we should be shutting down.Īs hard as it is for any vendor, say a flower shop, to quickly twist into an online shopping entity in direct competition with the entire internet, the decentralized structure of OSMA’s collection of sellers is particularly tricky to usefully abstract.Įach vendor sources and prices their own products for sale, everything from beautiful dresses from the 1920s to old National Geographics to Garfield mugs. “We were seeing it on our Facebook and Instagram feeds. But by Friday the 27,000 square-foot market shut the doors as the social backlash kept coming in. On Thursday, OSAM laid off all their hourly staff, who unlike the 100 vendors and the owners can at least claim employment insurance. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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