"Where did all the business go after the tragedy of Sept. 11?" is something that a lot of small business owners were asking themselves. In our shop, we noticed a decline in business, and when I talked to other business owners in fields unrelated to the automotive industry, they say that they have experienced a decline in their sales also.
Although in many areas of the country shops and their suppliers are reporting a noticeable uptick in business over the past several weeks, I guess that since the U.S. economy had already begun heading south prior to Sept. 11, sooner or later we would probably have seen the slowdown we experienced anyway. It must be paying the dues for having such a good economy for so many years. I had forgotten just how tough it was to make ends meet during economic slowdowns and how long the days really are when we don