Everyone I’ve been speaking with in my local area says very slow. We dropped about 10% toward the end of August. How about you? What has changed? What do you expect in the coming months?

We also hit a year at the end of August. Are sales are still much higher than they were this time last year. However, we pretty much grew for 8 months straight so I’m not sure how much insight last years numbers can give.

  • Fair_Produce_8340@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s our slow season. But the economy also is slower. We are less busy this slow season compared to last.

    Also we made a questionable hire.

    Of all the things that are hurting me, the questionable hire makes up 80%. Planning to deal with that after Christmas. Ironically we planned to deal with it before but out of nowhere the person specifically requested not to be let go during the holidays - I guess they know they aren’t a good fit and saw it coming.

    So we are basically running a charity atm… hard to turn solid profits like that.

    • Scentmaestro@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      If they’ve requested to not be let go during the holidays, why not use that to your advantage? I’d be telling then the expectations and what you need out of them in order to keep that promise. Because you’re not a charity I take it?