I had been cruising along through the early part of this Covid crisis with my business actually running ahead of last year. But the slowdown has reared its ugly head. One of my major suppliers closed his business officially about 6 weeks ago and this week two of my customers declared bankruptcy. My second largest customer has seen his business slow to about half of last years volume. Another good customer has just implemented virtual sales seminars in an effort to maintain their business. I'm 50% off with them.
Since I'm a one-man home-based business I'm still in pretty good shape but things like Yeti's where I would do 100-200 a month have dried up.
I'm a couple of miles from one of the main east-west thoroughfares and the number of vacant stores is growing by the day. I'm afraid we're in for a long recovery period after this one.