Week 9 of Owning a Brick-and-Mortar Vintage Store

Our lowest sales week yet, what I learned, and where we’re headed.

Our Lowest Sales Week Yet (But Not Without Lessons)

You might’ve noticed we skipped Week 8 and that’s because I was on a family vacation to Canada.

This trip had been on the calendar for a long time, and when it finally rolled around, I was faced with two choices:
1.) Close the shop while I was gone, or
2.) Find someone to help hold it down while I was away.

Truthfully, my husband and I are possibly in the middle of something (secret I’ll tell you in a few weeks) and with that big life shift on the horizon, I really didn’t want to hit pause on the shop.

I wanted to keep things running so if we do go through with it, there’s no big stop-and-start moment. Just a (hopefully) smooth transition.

In my head, I figured: okay, even without me there, we might pull in somewhere between