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Downtown Merchant Goes From Fired to Fancy Overnight
Nancy Carney's fashion accessories popped up on the Main Street scene after she was fired from her corporate job. She's been singing, dancing and fashion coordinating ever since.
Nancy Carney wasn't always the Motown-singing and dancing proprietor of Main Street fashion accessory store Nancy's Fancy. A quick peak inside her downtown shop shows tables of jewelry and purses organized meticulously by color. Motown hits feed her daily store soundtrack. Sometimes you may even catch her spontaneously dancing. But a year and half ago, Carney was far from feeling that fancy. One spring morning in 2011, Carney drove to her sales manager job at a large anti-virus software company. She arrived at work that day and noticed her boss and good friend was not in the office, which was unusual. Carney had a feeling that she knew what was coming next. Soon she was called into a meeting. Carney was getting fired, along with the rest …
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Ron Hernandez
11:28 am on Monday, October 1, 2012
Q has been selling this type of jewelry 1 block away, displayed by color since 2006. As a matter of fact, Nancy was a customer for a few years before taking our style and turning Zoe's into a copy of Q. It's a shame that she was fired, but stealing our concept and opening a block away from us was a really crappy thing to do. Dunedin is all about being unique. The unique music mixes, singing along… more ›