I own a hair salon. Typically, November is my busiest season. It has been SO quiet. A lot of my colleagues are also saying the same thing and have had to close up shop because of it - or get a second job.

People keep saying it will get better and the economy will bounce back but I don’t know. I am so close from just throwing in the towel, closing up shop and getting a corporate gig.

  • All_Conquering_Sun@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    So, I have a client who has owned a small furniture and bed retailer on the poor side of a Southern college town. For fifteen years he has averaged the following GROSS sales cycle:

    $40,000 a month January through May;

    $20,000 a month June-August;

    $40,000 a month Sept - Oct; and,

    $60,000 a month Nov. - Dec.

    This year he was high $30k low $40 k till May, below $15k in the summer, and . . .

    $8,000 in gross sales in September

    $6,000 in gross sales in October.

    He is freaking out as he borrowed $50k to expand inventory in the Spring for better deals and can’t get rid of it, with the financing due early next year.