We have a nice gift shop that have been doing great since January, we have been 30% ahead from last year until October hit, that was the slowest october of all the years. I thought November is going to pick up but still a bit slow, though we are 15% ahead compared to November last year. It’s just odd that seems sudden slow .
Run a store for a semi-niche hobby. Same trend as others are observing. Really bad October, but things have picked way up this month. Everyone I’ve spoken to in my industry, and neighboring retail stores that don’t have anything to do with our industry all seemed to have really crap Octobers.
My guess is that it had something to do with student loan repayments going into effect, and at least in our state, property taxes being due.