I have been having a lot of fun looking around for ways in which we can increase the trade to the Urunga Antique & Collectables Shop down in the Industrial Estate on Short Cut Road. It has been a constant battle to get trade when council will not allow any sign at the top of the street to alert passing traffic to the whereabouts of an antique shop.
The local council have been very sad and mean with their action regarding the shop. No longer is the owner allowed to phone the council re issues or he will be charged and therefore all correspondence with the two parties will be via mail only. This is outrageous.
Recently the shop owner ran alone in the local council elections and he came in fifth and he had a very large slice of the votes but of course he was not elected. He was in a group all on his own and it went to show how much support he actually had throughout the shire.
So we will get some nifty Magnetic Car Door Signs made. We will somehow outsmart them and we will win this fight by finding alternatives.
A sign at the top means forty to fifty people a day visit the shop. No sign means perhaps four or five people visit the shop. Council said he should move somewhere else. What sort of solution is that for a struggling small business owner who only wants to earn an honest living. He needs to get trade to the shop to survive though. So what else can we do. Thinking caps well on and if you have any ideas you want to share with me then by all means share them.
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