Varcoe: The battle for small businesses to survive and thrive during pandemic
The end of her business didn’t happen all at once. For Brianna Hallet, owner of SwizzleSticks SalonSpa, it truly was “death by 1,000 cuts,” a small business caught in the undertow of the COVID-19 pandemic and a prolonged economic downturn. But that didn’t make the decision to shut the doors on the three-decade-old business last […]