THE SHIFTING ECONOMY
Each year, countless small businesses close their doors and go into bankruptcy.
The corner grocer, the little dress shop, the locally-owned sandwich shop, the
bakery, the dancing school, the beauty salon: all are victims of the constantly shifting
economy. They are, at times, replaced by other small businesses that temporarily fill
the needs of the neighbourhood but frequently end up sharing the same fate of
dissolution. More often, the market served by the small business is taken over by
a
large store or plant, frequently from a more distant place of operation. Typically, the
customers of the corner grocery or bakery have already gone to the nationwide
supermarket chain just down the street. The woman who runs the dress shop
chooses fashions out of tune with the times and gets too old to keep the store open
during the most convenient hours for shoppers, who then go off to the big
department stores. It is increasingly difficult, apparently, for small businesses to
succeed in our complex economic structure based, as it is, on small profit margins
and tremendous sales volume.
Dostları ilə paylaş: