The Random Acts of Business website has only been up and running for three weeks but it has already seen hundreds of orders as it attempts to become #moreviralthanthevirus.
The site, which offers people a chance to purchase items from small businesses in Waterloo Region and gift them to others, was designed to help them survive through the coronavirus pandemic. “I thought it would be so devastating to lose these businesses because we all love and enjoy them,” Eric Silveira, the driving force behind the Random Acts of Business, said.
He says he and the other volunteers were looking for a way to help when they built the website. “A lot of local businesses, they’re going to be affected by this, and we thought ‘there’s got to be something that