You don't hear me bitterly complaining anymore about the street closure events downtown because it is no longer killing us. We have enough mainstream product in the store now to at least approach average sales. When we were a "specialty" store it used to kill us.

Yesterday I worked extra hard trying to respond to the hordes of people coming through the door, and ended up at slightly less sales than the previous Sunday. The same thing was true on Saturday. I came home utterly exhausted with the song "Too Many People" running through my brain:

"Too many people going the Fall Fest
Too many reaching for a piece of cake
Too many people pulled and pushed around
Too many waiting for that lucky break"

 

I still feel sorry for any specialty stores downtown, especially service businesses. But I also feel that when I was trying to get the Downtowners to slow down adding new events there were very few if any store owners willing to speak up, though many probably secretly agreed with me. All it did was make me look like the bad guy, as if I was trying to keep people from having their fun.

 

So be it...