eBay selects Baton Rouge for new pilot program aiming to help local retailers

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eBay officially picks Baton Rouge for Retail Revival

Baton Rouge marks the latest addition to the program’s growing portfolio of early adopters, which includes three other U.S. partner cities (Akron, Ohio; Lansing, Michigan; and Greensboro, North Carolina) and two international cities (Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, and Halifax, Canada). To date, there have been more than 200,000 total transactions by the roughly 300 participating businesses.

Broome says the city has had conversations with eBay since January, after the program was recommended to Baton Rouge by another local official. There was no incentive package offered to the company.

“Baton Rouge has small, growing businesses in every sector, from retail and restaurants that exemplify local flavor, to innovative tech companies growing in our local small business incubators,” Broome told community members this morning inside Red Stick Social on Government Street.

Applications for the Retail Revival program will open later this summer. Wenig says he expect to have 25-100 businesses participating.

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Meanwhile, eBay is also bringing 40 full-time customer service jobs to the city as part of eBay@Home, an initiative that allows eBay employees to work from home.Piloted last year in Akron, Ohio; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Austin, Texas, the program will come to Baton Rouge later this summer.

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