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What went wrongA former salon owner in Sylhet, in a Prothom Alo report

The salon closed in lockdown; a vegetable cart now brings 400-500 taka a day

A salon with staff closed for good during the pandemic. A vegetable cart now takes 2,000-2,500 taka of stock a day for a 400-500 taka margin, and reopening the salon would need 70,000-80,000 taka.

This man ran a salon with employees in the Subidbazar area of Sylhet city. Repeated COVID lockdowns kept it shut for long stretches, and with no income but rent and electricity bills still running, he gave it up for good. He now pushes a vegetable cart in Akhaliya, buying 2,000-2,500 taka of stock a day for a margin of 400-500 taka, about 12,000-13,000 taka a month. Rent of 4,000, electricity of 300-350, 2,000-3,000 for his daughter's schooling and about 5,000 for food leave nothing over, and after three years of cart work he has saved nothing. Restarting a salon, he reckons, would take 70,000-80,000 taka he does not have.

Lessons

  1. 1.Rent and bills keep running while a closed shop earns nothing, so a service shop without a few months of cash cannot ride out a shutdown
  2. 2.Once the premises and equipment are gone, getting back into the trade needs fresh capital — here 70,000-80,000 taka

Published with the person's permission, without revealing who they are.

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