my small town bakery is closing, my town is basically dead. There are people starting new types of business and doing well. This is a trying time, and if you don't change with the times (technology, better service, etc.) you can find your business closed quickly. A relative of mine owned a gun shop, because of the directions they went, they expanded and grew whether in good times or bad times, not to say the owner didn't have crap-his-pants financial times, he certainly did!