‘Upside down again’: Omicron surge roils US small businesses | Malay Mail

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LUBBOCK, Texas, Jan 16 — Phillip Howard pointed toward a stack of black ski pants piled atop a counter in his winter sports shop as evidence of the hurdles small business owners still face as the pandemic drags on. The pants were supposed to arrive by August at Troy’s Ski Lubbock shop in west...

LUBBOCK, Texas, Jan 16 — Phillip Howard pointed toward a stack of black ski pants piled atop a counter in his winter sports shop as evidence of the hurdles small business owners still face as the pandemic drags on.

As the pandemic enters its third year, many small businesses across the United States are besieged on three fronts: deepening supply chain issues; periodic staffing shortages; and fewer customers showing up in some areas, fearing the Omicron spike in Covid-19 cases.about the state of the economy from businesses, labour groups and others nationwide, showing that the fast-spreading Omicron variant was exacerbating difficulties, especially for hiring and inflation.1.

Co-owner St. John Frizell estimates about 30 per cent of the nearly 60 people working at the restaurant have had Covid-19 in the last month. Owners wanted staff to have a negative coronavirus test before returning to work, but that often meant employees spent hours waiting in lines to get swabbed.

Amy Glosser shifted BYKlyn, her cycling studio, to new outdoor premises in the summer of 2020 to keep the Brooklyn business afloat. But Glosser said she and her two dozen employees agreed they could not do another winter outdoors, so she moved the business to a temporary indoor space on December 1. Mark Pectol, who owns four Zesty Zzeeks Pizza & Wings shops in the Phoenix metro area, said he never dreamed his biggest nightmare as a small business owner would come in the form of supply chain issues.

 

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