1. lol the free labor that organizations have expected out of our small business in the name of “free marketing.” Ha!
2. If you don’t make enough to pay yourself, how will you pay employees to keep your business open longer hours?
3. Locals don’t have any money. The only jobs available in vacation towns are low paying service work, so locals don’t have the disposable income needed to patronize businesses designed for wealthy vacationers.
The complexity of staying open later is rarely visible to people who don't make the schedule. We're also dealing with limited staff not because "people don't want to work," but because the business doesn't make enough during some time periods to pay non-salaried, non-shareholder employees to be there. To say nothing of the crime and safety issues that arise when you think about staying open later... but Main Street doesn't really think about that either.
1. lol the free labor that organizations have expected out of our small business in the name of “free marketing.” Ha!
2. If you don’t make enough to pay yourself, how will you pay employees to keep your business open longer hours?
3. Locals don’t have any money. The only jobs available in vacation towns are low paying service work, so locals don’t have the disposable income needed to patronize businesses designed for wealthy vacationers.
The complexity of staying open later is rarely visible to people who don't make the schedule. We're also dealing with limited staff not because "people don't want to work," but because the business doesn't make enough during some time periods to pay non-salaried, non-shareholder employees to be there. To say nothing of the crime and safety issues that arise when you think about staying open later... but Main Street doesn't really think about that either.