Industry Indicator
Here you will find up-to-date industry statistics, letting you in on the state of the industry a full month earlier than our print publication.
Ups and Downs
by David Hachmeister
We were as surprised as we could be when stamp sales were shown as rising in March. We only showed four companies with increases. However, two of them were big companies with big increases. Hence the 5.63 percent gain vs. the last two Marches.
Although sales for smaller shops rose by a modest 2.89 percent from February, when compared to the two previous Marches they crashed by 18 percent.
Other product sales fell by almost 12 percent.
These are nerve-wracking times.
You may notice changes in the numbers for our small shops going back to April of last year; this is because one of our small shops has moved into the "large shops" category. Congratulations to our participant on making the big time.
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