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Yelp data shows permanent small business closures have exceeded 60% in some markets


               
2020 Sep 16, 10:30am   3,750 views  34 comments

by Automan Empire   follow (1)  

I'm in an essential industry and never closed, but my customers, and their customers on down the line, are tightening their belts and not using the equipment I service. Therefore, I'm feeling the squeeze. In the last 18 months I went from 3 employees to just me running everything.

YELP has plenty of issues and I can't stress enough that businesses should never pay them a dime for marketing services. That said, they provide a good ground-up view of the state of the economy down to a granular, smallest business in town inclusive level of detail. Here's a report on permanent business closures according to their data.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/almost-60-percent-business-closures-are-now-permanent-new-yelp-n1240209

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21   Shaman   2020 Oct 13, 1:01pm  

Dbr6 says
True, but small restaurants that have been around for years are failing in abnormally large numbers where I live, and we don't have hard shutdowns. So it must be corona-related.


Lots of people are scared to go out to eat. That’s about half the problem. The other half is that in some places like California, they’ve made it illegal to serve the public in that way. Ok, so recently they loosened the restrictions in many places here. But the damage has been done.
22   Patrick   2020 Oct 13, 1:04pm  

There can be no sane doubt about what happened to all the small businesses.

Bonzo - you iwog again?
23   Patrick   2020 Oct 13, 1:09pm  

It was iwog.

Deleted him again.
24   Patrick   2020 Oct 13, 1:12pm  

Dbr6 says
small restaurants that have been around for years are failing in abnormally large numbers where I live. So it must be corona-related.



True, and not just restaurants. All kinds of small businesses. It's like the neutron bomb.

The whole pandemic could be declared over and done right now, but no way will Democrats do that before the election, or after the election either, no matter which way it goes. If Trump wins, they will continue to spitefully destroy the lives of millions of innocent people just because they hate Trump. If Trump loses, they will continue to demand ever more control over the minutiae of everyone's lives, and the scamdemic is an excellent way to do that.
25   Ceffer   2020 Oct 13, 1:21pm  

When you can't process customers in large numbers efficiently at close quarters, and you have certain tight business margins, you are going to go out of business. Adding expensive nonsense rituals that slow down your customer flow also will either double or triple customer costs and overheads.

I am thinking if Trump is elected, all of this insanity will be too expensive to maintain for the Globalists/Shadow Gvt./Deep (Shallow) State etc. for no further significant return. It already appears that way because the modest Covid easing seem related to their consciousness that the blame for all of this is falling where it belongs, or at least on the useful idiots. I would like to think that it would assure a sweep to dump these criminals from office, but I'm not so sure that will happen.

Hollywood is doing an "Et Tu, Brute", falling on its sword and getting lambasted, as well as entertainment industry in general. No gratitude for the nattering nabobs of fake news and propaganda on the big screen. There was no loyalty amongst the psychopaths. Places like Hollywood only survive on extreme liquidity and loan conduits, so the Shadow banking interests probably told them they better do what they were told or else.

At least a nice side effect has been that celebrities are now being regarded as the rank, spoiled, narcissistic fools that they are.
26   Bd6r   2020 Oct 13, 1:21pm  

Patrick says
but no way will Democrats do that before the election

Our TX Gov Abbott is also not lifting all restrictions, which he should have done months ago. I drove through W TX a few weeks ago, and restaurants/wineries/etc have banners OPEN TEXAS ABBOTT all over the place. So, while D's are really insane, I don't think R's are completely logical about this.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-gop-urges-abbott-to-open-texas-now/


Texas GOP Urges Abbott to ‘Open Texas Now’
“For a state party to publicly disagree with a sitting governor of the same party is not something any of us take lightly.”

Rolando Garcia, the newly elected committeeman for Senate District 15 in Houston who authored the “Open Texas Now” resolution, says he was motivated by Abbott’s announcement last week, which allowed some businesses to open at 75 percent capacity while others were forced to remain closed.
27   Ceffer   2020 Oct 13, 1:51pm  

I always thought that Covid ulterior motive was to eliminate the cash flow of myriad businesses to allow the patrons of the epidemic to swoop in and scoop them up for cheap.

It's the old Rockefeller strategy playbook. If you put on your psychopath glasses, you can see how well that would work. That's why I know lockdowns won't last, because these same architects will eventually want their plundered businesses to be profitable again.

Covid will be miraculously 'cured' by vaccine, which will also be a profit angle.
28   Bd6r   2020 Oct 13, 2:09pm  

Ceffer says
I always thought that Covid ulterior motive was to eliminate the cash flow of myriad businesses

or to remake population into stupid sheep who do whatever the "experts" and government want them to, such as wearing masks. May be next year it will be public wearing of adult diapers to signal submission to our government
29   noobster   2020 Oct 14, 7:38am  

I know of more businesses that have died from corona, than people that have died. FACT.
30   noobster   2020 Oct 14, 7:42am  

Abbott needs to go away
31   RWSGFY   2020 Oct 14, 7:45am  

Dbr6 says
Ceffer says
I always thought that Covid ulterior motive was to eliminate the cash flow of myriad businesses

or to remake population into stupid sheep who do whatever the "experts" and government want them to, such as wearing masks. May be next year it will be public wearing of adult diapers to signal submission to our government


Diarrhea is listed as a Covid symptom, btw.
32   WookieMan   2020 Oct 14, 7:56am  

FuckCCP89 says
Dbr6 says
Ceffer says
I always thought that Covid ulterior motive was to eliminate the cash flow of myriad businesses

or to remake population into stupid sheep who do whatever the "experts" and government want them to, such as wearing masks. May be next year it will be public wearing of adult diapers to signal submission to our government


Diarrhea is listed as a Covid symptom, btw.

I know. How do you think I got a test? That was one of my symptoms along with a cough. We also lied about being in contact with someone that had Covid. Technically we were but it was weeks prior to their positive test. The free drive through sites here are miserable and I guess it can take a week or so for results. WTF is the point? You've spread it everywhere at that point. I feel dirty but we had to have our kids lie to doctors as well. It's freaky how much they want us locked down after going through this to just even get a test with a quick turn around.

But 3 out 4 negative as of this morning. Need mine and we're cleared for St. John. Need me a god damn beach even with a broken heel in a boot. Bringing the nephew, but if he's positive we're still going without him. I feel great, so we should be good unless I get a false positive which I'll then forge in Adobe with one of the negative tests. We love travel and this year has blown tranny dick for travel. Our one Covid flight was empty, so that was a positive.
33   HeadSet   2020 Oct 14, 11:51am  

Our one Covid flight was empty, so that was a positive.

Ha, ha, I see what you did there.
34   WookieMan   2020 Oct 14, 2:30pm  

Tested negative. Boom. So is the nephew. So all 5 of us are good to go to St. John. Now I just have to figure out the crippled system at the airport. Have a Knee Rover and don't want to get pushed around by some overpaid bum in a wheelchair. But still need to bring crutches.

Whole experience with a broken heel has been humbling. People are more helpful than I thought they would be, but it also makes me feel weak and shitty as a guy in his 30's. Find myself telling people to stop it and I probably come across as an ass. lol. Doing this for another month at least and potentially longer.

TL:DR - Don't injure the bottom parts of your feet.

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