In a world where many things you could seek — a meal, answers to your questions, event or travel tickets, an outfit — are only a few clicks or taps away, a new business in downtown Raleigh wants to pull people away from their screens.
The historic building in downtown Raleigh that will house the business, the items shoppers can browse inside and the name of the store itself — The Newsagent’s — all reflect the goal of its owners, married couple Neetzan Zimmerman and Yulia Shamis, to take customers away from the digital age, and back to analog.
“Physical is the name of the game,” Zimmerman told The News & Observer in a phone interview. “We want to make things available for people to hold and to own and to enjoy for as long as they possess it.”…