| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: What happened about Scotland's laws re minimum pricing etc? | |
| Posted by: | David Lesniak | |
| Date/Time: | 11/01/26 07:26:00 |
| Again, Janice, what exactly are you referring to? Small businesses here were helped tremendously during COVID. Before and after not so much. The current situation is concerning because it appears a U-turn is coming for pubs. Where does that leave the rest of SME traders? They don't have the bargaining power of pubs which, in some cases, are quasi SMEs. Staying on point, the US hospitality sector is also struggling more so with the current immigration situation. It is hollowing out the service sector along with construction. I'd say this is less so here only because currently there is no threat just turning up to work the way there is now in the states for immigrants populating these sectors in ways the so-called natives are not. Health care, anyone? At home its tariffs. Here it is rates and Reeves. |