This Easter was the quietest sales we have ever recorded, even worse thanduring the peak of the GFC.
The only thing I can think of is that people are very short of money after we got hit with the worst hail and rain storms in over 100 years just over a week ago. Even though insurance coverage was widespread many insurance companies “wrote off” damaged cars at market value when clients were expecting much more meaning they are now out of pocket many $000’s for replacement. Also some just paid to get repairs done on their houses rather than the lenghty wait to get it done via insurance companies.
For whatever reason we were down 20% over last year (and that was bad too). Many others are also saying sales were slower than usual.
The thing that hurt the most was on Good Friday where we have to pay double time wages (public holiday) and staff can only be sent home after 3 hours work. Even though we had lower staff levels we still we overstaffed for the sales. We sent 3 home after 3 hours and another 3 after 3 1/2 hours leaving just me and a driver on board … and we were bored.
Dave
The only thing I can think of is that people are very short of money after we got hit with the worst hail and rain storms in over 100 years just over a week ago. Even though insurance coverage was widespread many insurance companies “wrote off” damaged cars at market value when clients were expecting much more meaning they are now out of pocket many $000’s for replacement. Also some just paid to get repairs done on their houses rather than the lenghty wait to get it done via insurance companies.
For whatever reason we were down 20% over last year (and that was bad too). Many others are also saying sales were slower than usual.
The thing that hurt the most was on Good Friday where we have to pay double time wages (public holiday) and staff can only be sent home after 3 hours work. Even though we had lower staff levels we still we overstaffed for the sales. We sent 3 home after 3 hours and another 3 after 3 1/2 hours leaving just me and a driver on board … and we were bored.
Dave
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