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What has happened since we closed the store at the end of 2021? We sold our house, sold most of our belongings, bought a 5th wheel and moved to the Deep South. When we make changes, we go big! “If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored;If you remove unrighteousness far from your tent,” Job 22:23 We had …
If only my frustration could be shown through visual means, I guess in todays world, this post would look something like this: OMG, I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING. I wont write the whole post like that, just know that I would be typing in all caps, bold and very large type… So, as you know, we did not apply …
Did you ever think the city mayor would mobilize the public against your small business? I never thought we would be living in that era, ever… But here we go. So the Rogers Arkansas mayor held a press conference on Wednesday June 17th and announced that he was implementing a new program. He is calling it #KeepRogersSafe and here is …
If you are in a state that did not mandate closings, do you close or do you stay open? Well, for us and most small businesses during this time, it is an easy decision. Do you have the sales to stay open, or do your sales answer that question for you? For us, we were not ordered closed by the …
Where to start on this topic… I am going to break this up into several topics because they all deserve their own space and are likely going to be long posts. In this article, I will talk through how we, as small business owners, became informed about PPP. This spans initial media reports, to talking with our accountants and bankers …
Names have been changed to protect the guilty… 🙂 It is starting to feel like we have to be making this up, there is no way that we could possibly be running into so many issues at every turn. Nope, we don’t lie, we don’t embellish (unless we tell you we are) and we only tell you what went down, …
This is just crazy and we are trying not to pull our hair out… That is all I can say about this crazy retail world post COVID-19 scare that we find ourselves in. The first 3 days we were open, everything was wonderful, and then it all tanked… big time… For the month of April, sales were down 75% compared …
So shortly after the COVID-19 scare (you know, the one where we were all going to die), we quickly decided to make the move to reopen the front of the store. We made the decision to only do so under the following internal guidelines: Clean the doors and highly touched areas multiple times per day (based on the traffic) Offer …
