What's going to happen when the lock down gets lifted?
Posted: Mon 27 Apr, 2020 12:25 pm
What's going to happen when the lock down gets lifted? Well, my guess is that lots of high street stores will start having sales and the discounts could make life very hard for everybody else. For myself, being based in a small town, I know what usually happens when the sales are on and usually every one has gone to the bigger towns looking for the bargains and our town is empty. If this is what is going to happen and who are to some degree expecting it, at least it won't come as a big shock and maybe we might be able to prepare for it.
It's part of people's physcoilogy to like to spend money to make them feel better at down times. People feel down after Christmas and go to the January sales often to buy things that they only realise they don't need after they have got things home. The next phase is everybody is skint and some of the stuff that they bought in the sales goes on eBay to try and get some of the money back, but everyone else is skint too, so prices on ebay are really bad too and people are still skint.
Will people do the same after the shut down gets lifted? It would not be a big surprise to some of us if they did! We may need to get through a hard time after the lock down is lifted and it's good to be ready for that possibility, before it happens. Our landlords won't be in too much hurry to insist that we pay on time, if times are hard. After all there won't be lots of others, lining up to rent their premises, it they chuck us out. Deals will be done to keep us going, if need be. They need us too!
Shipping lot of cheap junk from China, to sell in stores that are having trouble selling all the cheap junk that they are still stuck with, won't be happening any time soon either. So where does that leave us? Customers won't be in any hurry to buy anything, which is not good value for money any they won't be so interested in the cheap junk, so much as before. Anything that us framers are likely to be able to sell, will have to sell on it's own merit as value for money and something that is still desirable in hard times when money is tight.
How many of us realise how many narrow black a brown frames, we have seen that came originally from previous periods of austerity. Well businesses survived then, why can't we? How many of us are willing to fight to stay in businss? It may come down to that! We are not just run of the mill business people, we are very creative and we have a lot going for us. I hope that most of us can recognise this fact and understand that most of us have what it takes to be winners and not losers. A lot of us will come through this, if we really wants to.
It's part of people's physcoilogy to like to spend money to make them feel better at down times. People feel down after Christmas and go to the January sales often to buy things that they only realise they don't need after they have got things home. The next phase is everybody is skint and some of the stuff that they bought in the sales goes on eBay to try and get some of the money back, but everyone else is skint too, so prices on ebay are really bad too and people are still skint.
Will people do the same after the shut down gets lifted? It would not be a big surprise to some of us if they did! We may need to get through a hard time after the lock down is lifted and it's good to be ready for that possibility, before it happens. Our landlords won't be in too much hurry to insist that we pay on time, if times are hard. After all there won't be lots of others, lining up to rent their premises, it they chuck us out. Deals will be done to keep us going, if need be. They need us too!
Shipping lot of cheap junk from China, to sell in stores that are having trouble selling all the cheap junk that they are still stuck with, won't be happening any time soon either. So where does that leave us? Customers won't be in any hurry to buy anything, which is not good value for money any they won't be so interested in the cheap junk, so much as before. Anything that us framers are likely to be able to sell, will have to sell on it's own merit as value for money and something that is still desirable in hard times when money is tight.
How many of us realise how many narrow black a brown frames, we have seen that came originally from previous periods of austerity. Well businesses survived then, why can't we? How many of us are willing to fight to stay in businss? It may come down to that! We are not just run of the mill business people, we are very creative and we have a lot going for us. I hope that most of us can recognise this fact and understand that most of us have what it takes to be winners and not losers. A lot of us will come through this, if we really wants to.