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Staying alive as a dive shop
firediver57 - 12/12/2008 12:54 PM
I wanted to respond to Greg’s blog but was limited by character numbers. A lot of the ideas he presented are good ones but the thing is that as the mom and pops get lean (and we are one) so do the distributors, and the advertising agencies, and most affiliated services. They aren’t really keen on starving or layoffs either. I have worked the last month at our shop without wages and it doens’t look to get any better. The distributors will give us better prices if we buy "X" amount of product but ...