Broadway corridor businesses urge shoppers to buy local as subway construction delayed
As retailers continue to recover from the pandemic and restrictions lift, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business said small businesses are also facing increased costs and labour shortages.
“These are really dangerous times for small firms and the holiday shopping season is absolutely critical,” CFIB president and CEO Dan Kelly said.Many retailers, Kelly said, report 40 per cent of annual sales happen in the six weeks before Christmas. If consumers dedicate even a small chunk of their holiday shopping to small businesses in their neighbourhoods instead of buying everything online from big giants, Kelly said it makes a huge difference.“If we had some more support from government I think that could ease a lot of the pain,” Guindon told Global News.
Guindon and the Mount Pleasant BIA believe there should be some form of compensation for the impact of a five-year mega project. “It’s extending past the original ETA. I feel like they’ve got to strongly change how they’re approaching this for the businesses,” Guindon said.As a new business, Guindon said Portside Interiors will ride out the construction storm and looks forward to the project wrapping so they can be “part of the glory of a new SkyTrain.”
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