Roscoe Village Bikes should be thriving as Covid-19 restrictions in Chicago end. Instead, business is down 10%. Here’s why mom and pops are still struggling to come back.
. While about 600,000 businesses fail annually in a normal year, the pandemic took out a further 200,000, far fewer than some predictions, the study found.
Roscoe Village Bikes gets a lot of service business, but the lack of parts and new bikes is weighing on sales.Shoppers at the Kickin’ clothing boutique, which is in the same subdivided space with the owner's A Pied shoe store. But owner Marc Wuenschel, who opened and closed multiple locations of his three small restaurant chains in the city during different phases of the pandemic, is paying more for rubber gloves and chicken thighs as well as cooks and bussers.
Marc Wuenschel, at his Savannah Supper Club, says he is paying more for rubber gloves, chicken thighs, cooks and bussers. She emerged from the pandemic in May with both businesses housed in the same subdivided space, on a corner between the bike shop and the supper club. Sales are coming along, she said, but she has had to get creative to keep stocked with fresh merchandise since many manufacturers are selling items that are similar to what they were offering last year.
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