A Navy veteran and small business owner talked about the supply chain issues that she and her company are experiencing right now, and she had a message for President Joe Biden during an interview on Fox Friends on Tuesday morning.
Michelle Smith, owner of the Brewed Downtown coffee shop in Jacksonville, N.C., said on Fox Friends, You think you're doing well in your community, and everything is going as smooth as can be. They say, Well, we're only going to take the upper thirty-five percent. Where do I fall? There are less than one percent of their total nationwide sales. She said that in order to acquire supplies for her business, she started combing the internet, because we have a couple of resources. There is a restaurant supply on the web that we could get to. We have kind of gone all over the state trying to look. FOX FRIENDS I tried to order ahead. When they realized they had a chokehold on everything and that everyone was going to be needing these products, it seemed like the prices kept going higher and higher and higher. Smith said that I'm looking at my budget and what I have to spend on these things. She said I was pulling my hair out, just trying to find it at any resource we could. Read more about the issues a small business owner has been facing.
Michelle Smith is taking her back, but with conditions that I have a higher number case count, not a piece count - but a case I could buy a block of cream cheese that doesn't count as a case unless there's a whole box of it, she told Fox Friends. They've increased that from 15 to 25 pieces, and there's a pretty hefty $1,500 spend amount on that as well. Michelle Smith's message to Joe Biden about the supply chain crisis: I really don't think the president understands that more than sixty-five percent of America is made up of nothing but small business. We're the number-one employer in the United States. It's not a big business, it's not Microsoft, it's not Amazon, it's the small businesses per capita in terms of how many people we employ. We don't do anything about what we do in our area. She said that we need to get the country back working and following their company guidelines. Let's start producing the things we are running short of. Let's bring it all back to America. We don't like to depend on foreign countries to do our work for us. Michelle Smith said on Tuesday that she was unsure if her small business will survive. It has not been the easiest, especially the last 10 months or so. We have a drive-through and we were able to keep our doors open. She said that because we're spending more to get the same products as we were doing before, I just don't feel like I can raise my prices because of our local economy, which is made up of young Marine and Navy personnel.