Subj : Store blues
To   : August Abolins
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Dec 05 2020 14:53:46

  Re: Store blues
  By: August Abolins to Arelor on Sat Dec 05 2020 09:18 am

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Saturday 05.12.20 - 05:36, Arelor wrote to All:
 > 
 >  A> So winter is here and weather sucks once again.
 > 
 > Generally your winters are mild by comparison to what we get
 > in my area.  What a wus you are.  ;)
 > 
 > 
 >  A> Nobody is on the streets so this means nobody is coming to
 >  A> my store today.
 > 
 > That's just one day.  If that would turn out to be weeks, then
 > I'd worry.
 > 
 > 
 >  A> Sometimes I feel like closing the brick n mortar store and
 >  A> turn the whole business into a purely online operation.
 > 
 > Are you renting space for the brick'n'mortar?
 > 
 > --
 >   ../|ug

Winters here are not Siberia's nor North Canada's but this it not Murcia
either. Lots of foreigners come here during winter with light clothing thinking
this is Cádiz. Then they get a cold because it is -10 ºC outside, the pipes
blow up because of the cold, and they find themselves digging their rental car
from under the snow.

I am not renting the store place but I am also still paying for it. The
operational costs of the whole operation are extremely low, which is why I have
not ditched it altogether :-) But the whole deal is a bit disheartening because
none of my regular friends or contacts have deigned to show up at the place and
say hello,much less buy a piece or soap. My average daily sales in the store
are about two pieces of soap per day. WHen you compare it to what I sell via
any other channel you start wondering why in hell you are bothering to open the
place when you could stay home with the horses and make the deliveries from
there.

(Actually the reason is that if I stayed home my family would not let me work)
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