- June 21, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
CHICAGO—The owners of Roscoe Village Bikes say the shop should be thriving as Covid-19 restrictions fade away, but sales this month are down about 10% from a year ago because the shop can’t get enough new bikes and key parts to meet demand.
“Our suppliers are telling us that they have containers full of bikes sitting in the water” waiting to make it through overloaded ports, said
Lesley Tweedie,
co-owner of the shop. Some bikes she orders today might not arrive until October, she said. “It’s hard to sell a bike with that much uncertainty.”
Like small businesses across the country, most of the shops on Roscoe Street, a neighborhood shopping district on Chicago’s North Side, are eager to get back to normal after a year in which coronavirus restrictions held back foot traffic and limited in-person dining, shopping and services like haircuts. While business is coming back, small shops are now…
