Unless things change very quickly for us in the next few week or so this could be a short run for the hopeful village store that we had planned on bringing. This years sells barely covered the cost of frieght for our order of Lemax this year and the money coming in right now which is from my other job is going to pay off bills. It is hard to say where the money will come from to order new stuff for 2009. Most likely if we can not order again this next year that could be the end of the retail scector already. Without new product to sale there is not much chance of getting many sells again next year with product that will be a year old. The out look is not good right now.
What will this mean if the retail store does dry up? Most likely the future of BNW will be one that is pretty dim for a while. Interest in the Network is at an all time high but without the retail scetor it will not be the same. Prospects for any future projects will be on hold for a very long time. The progress we have made here in the last year was amazing in many ways but will it be enough to keep BNW alive and active as it is now? We are not sure.
If we fail at least we tried to give the village community a place to not only share ideas and interest but to shop and find products for the village collections they have also. Big chains like Michaels have put small shop owners and on line seller out of business in the past so BNW is not the only one that could be about to go under. We will just have to wait and see if something happens to turn things around.
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