Julie (@juliew2010@aus.social)

ourselves.space

21d

Another rant about small businesses:

As I’ve said before, I try to support local businesses. But when they’re just not interested… I wanted to buy some quilting fabric - probably $200 worth, not a $4 fat quarter.

The woman who was ‘helping’ me choose fabrics went on lunch. She walked out, when she was serving me, to go to lunch.

The woman who came in to take over from her looked at my choices and said, you’re using that grey. I said it was the recommended colour for the pattern. And she walked off. Now, I don’t think I have BO or bad breath; she just could not be arsed to help.

So I am supporting a local business, just not one local to me. I ordered the whole run of fabrics I wanted from the one spot, delivered to my door. #canberrabusinesses #quilting #onlineshopping #canberra #hobartbusinesses

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@juliew2010

One of our village shops, formerly thriving, literally went bust after the owner had some personal issues and stepped away from running it. He hired a manager, who was blisteringly unsuited to any kind of customer-facing role.

I lasted longer than most, but gave up after having my banknotes and small coins checked thoroughly, as I apparently looked ‘like the kind of person who would have fake money’ and was told to shop elsewhere. One friend was told that she bought too much wine, and another that she was too old to dress ‘like that’. It was a village joke for the few months before it all collapsed.

The problem with small local businesses is that they’re reliant on a small number of personalities. Sometimes that can be great; others, catastrophic.

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