Despite a growing income from his own business, Daryl Wier and his spouse have been trying and failing to spend their money on new kitchen appliances that now face a back order delay of many months.
Wier’s income and his inability to spend it may be connected. For Wier, who runs 49th Apparel in Sault Ste. Marie, an Ontario city of about 70,000 where Lake Superior meets Lake Huron, his business of making nightshirts and selling them by mail order has never been better.
“Should I really say my sales are up by 360 per cent?” Wier said over the phone last week, as if afraid of courting bad luck by being too
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