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agreed, I have no issue with it - if folks don't want a haircut at those prices, they're free to go somewhere else.
Table for 4 at your favorite restaurant for Friday night at 7. Reservation only (not cost of dinner or drinks) starts at 25. Do I hear 30?
$14?!?
Could happen.
Agree with this.
I get a haircut every other month. I actually went the day before they shut them down, probably not a wise move at the time, but I'm still holding up fine.
I work in labor...
Agree. Barber shouldn’t be protected against $5 a roll to and then basically do the same to their customers
And they are getting breaks as well. If everything goes like it normally does, more often than not those entities will end up better off than before after they’re done draining the money that should probably go to other folks.
Unless something has changed. Unemployment is not tax free (the extra $600 might be IDK).
How could they have not? I am sure many have gone to people's homes to cut hair in violation of the orders, but I can't imagine it's anything close to 100% of the usual revenue.
Unless you are deputing the numbers I posted, I already explained how they may not be losing money.
No, they'd have to change the waiting area. My guess it would be a thing like the food pick up where you wait in your car or outside distanced. Bottom line, my only point for this shop was when they re-open, they likely will be near regular capacity. I know that's not the case for lots of places. Especially restaurants.
You think brick and mortar businesses and employees are doing well? I'm working and making 60% less during the pandemic. My co-workers had to get furloughed and are each making a fraction of what their pre-pandemic earnings are. Our landlord is not giving a penny of rent relief--which means that once we open on reduced volumes--we'll have to pay double rent. You think most small businesses are getting loan money? We applied within the first four hours when it got announced--and got denied and are expecting to get denied for $100k when the lakers, shake shack got millions almost instantly. Yeah--maybe there are some people who are making more off the government money than before--but do not act like thats the normal. Most people in the brick and mortar sector are getting absolutely destroyed by this.
I do not believe unemployment benefits cover anywhere close to what my barbers were making. I am sure it is relative to locality, cost of living, etc.
This is how I feel. If they want to turn getting a haircut into some Hunger Games competition of whoever has the deepest pockets then screw them. I'd rather order some clippers off Amazon and do it myself until I find another haircut place.
Agree that these industries have had to make sacrifices, and I plan on leaving a bigger tip than normal when I go back for my first. I wouldn't though if I get charged a higher than normal price.
This is not a parallel argument. The goverment forced certain businesses closed--there was no choice This was not a slow down in a business cycle. The government said that some businesses can remain open--while others have to shut down. The goverment will also force businesses that rely on volume to exist to somehow exist on limited volume. The government is doing all of this--all without the guarantee that they will make the workers and owners of those businesses "whole". The loans are a rigged raffle--where the big boys get their money instantly while the others are left getting denied over and over again. I agree that the lockdown was necessary for public health--but the government should have bailed out every business that got screwed through their imposed lockdown. They bailed out the big banks that caused the last crisis--but they seem to not care about the innocent businesses and employees that their own laws have destroyed.
The local place I go to is a sole proprietor. Over 15 years, I've never seen enough people in there to even come close to making 6-feet-apart an issue.
I was speaking specifically about TN, which is where this auction is happening and barbers, who havent been working at all. Your 60% and what your furloughed co-workers are going through is meaningless in this context.
Understood. Do you happen to know the reasoning for the "Auction" angle on this? I can see raising prices and taking appointments. Not understanding the auction angle though, admittedly I'm somewhat dense.
Locally, Hurricane Katrina introduced a price jump for a lot of personal services -- and that price jump never went back down to pre-Katrina levels. It essentially worked itself out over time.
For a lot of places, this will be make-or-break. If the increase of prices drives down demand ... or if the jewelry store down the street can cut corners and undersell you by 10% ... not a good scene from any perspective.
It is all meaningful. Do you think the cost of business for barbers post pandemic are the same as pre-pandemic? How much does a gallon of bleach cost now versus before? You think they will use the same capes over and over again after every cut--or do you think they will have to purchase far more? LIfe for brick and mortar businesses just got a lot more complex and complicated. You doing a quick google search and applying that to people's livelihoods is insulting and meaningless. People in the brick and mortar sector are not just dots on a graph. I know that makes people that don't exist in our sector feel good to convince themselves that everything is just fine--but let me tell you-- the vast majority of us are getting slammed far more than you will ever digest.
This is a good point -- whatever made your product/service worth $X on 2/22/2020 ... does it make your product worth $2X (or even $1.1X) on 8/1/2020? And will the general public -- especially after some time passes -- accept "COVID" as an viable reason?
