Most of my workshop’s equipment has been bought locally, ie. within an easy drive at home. Sometimes I feel like I’ve been the unwitting beneficiary of the deindustrialization of Ontario as people have sold off equipment as they’ve shut down their businesses and retired which is unfortunate because their companies cease being going concerns and so on. What have been great deals for me personally have frequently been symptoms of larger problems in the economy here.
I had a late dinner last night and took a walk after. I did something unusual and wound my way back home along one of the nearby main streets and saw the lights blazing, literally burning the midnight oil at the local TV/stereo repair shop. I looked in the window to see what was going on and this is what I saw:
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There was a sign on the door saying to call for an appointment due to COVID-19 so they were still going into the pandemic but it looks like they weren’t able to outlast it and the pandemic hastened the demise of another local, corner electronics repair shop.
Unless the person running it decided to ditch the storefront and continue by working out of his home, the parts, the tools, the test equipment from another defunct business are going to show up for sale soon.