07/02/2025
Y’all I think I died a little bit this morning….
It is getting harder and harder to be a small business. At the end of last year two companies that I fairly regularly bought wholesale from ended their wholesale programs. Ok no biggie. And then another one earlier this year ended it. And then in early June the company I planned to buy the main current box product from stopped their direct wholesale program. But you could still buy through a broker. Ok no biggie I have an account with said broker. So went to order from them. The wholesale price went up $18 each item. 🤢 Making each item $40. That would have been the entire box. And now today USPS is raising prices 51% later this month. Right now it costs anywhere between $9 and $13 a box to ship. It will be $13-20. And Im sure they will do the normal Christmas increase as well.
Unfortunately after this box goes out. It will be time to make some hard choices.
Pray for your small business friends. And please dont turn this political. Today is not the day