When Laurel Dye was pregnant, she found it ridiculous that she couldn’t try out some strollers before buying one.

Dye, 33, lives in a fourth-floor, walk-up condo in Fairmont. She wanted a stroller that would be easy to store and that she knew she’d be able to carry up all those stairs while juggling her soon-to-be-born daughter. But she couldn’t find any stores in Philly where she could test-drive different stroller styles and varieties. (She and her husband, Bobby, don’t own a car, so they needed to shop locally in the city.)

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“I was definitely intimidated” about all the equipment they were going to need once the baby was born, Dye says.

While posting about the dilemma in local “mom” groups on Facebook and googling for solutions, she came across a busi

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