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Due to the increases in rent and global economic uncertainty, the owner of Antiques of strange stuff, Terry Sanchez, said he was trying to close his doors and move his business online.
The retail trends analyst Coresight estimates that 15,000 additional companies at the national level will close their brick and mortar stores compared to last year.
Sanchez buys and sells antiques for 50 years and has been in the West Bottoms space for a little over eight years now. Unfortunately, the world of retail has changed.
“We used to get 100 people on a Saturday and 100 people on a Sunday in retail,” said Sanchez. “Now, maybe 20 years? I mean, there is no more traffic without an appointment.”
Parties of the western funds are currently under construction, Addition of lofts and the Rock Island Bridge in order to bring more people.
Sanchez said it was too little, too late.
“It will take 10 years to develop,” said Sanchez. “I am 70 years old, I will be dead before it is fashionable, and cool, and I earn money. And the only people who will earn money are those who have the properties.”
The pleasure of antiquity for Beverly Knoll, a customer of strange stuff, is to see the object in person.
“Find a treasure that no one else thought it was a treasure,” Knoll said.
She goes to many garage and savings sales markets, but to hear that this store closes the concern.
“I think it’s sad,” Knoll said. “But, you know, it happens everywhere.”
The closing date of beer state antiques has been pushed back a few months.
Sanchez said he wanted to sell the majority of what’s in stores right now and move online in the next five to six months.
He just doesn’t seem to abandon his passion.
“I don’t want to. I like to talk to people,” said Sanchez. “And that’s probably why I still kicks 70 because I like what I do.”
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