coronavirus pandemic continues to hammer the small business sector from coast to coast.From the closures and restrictions in the spring to reduced capacities for patrons inside of businesses in the summer and fall, 2020 has been a tough go.Camille Parent has owned Peterborough Vacuum for 30 years and says this year has been unlike anything he’s seen.“It’s a tough go out there.
Nobody knows where things are going to go,” he said.Parent tells Global News Peterborough his business, which sells vacuums and cleaning supplies and offers repairs, was closed for a month at the outset of the pandemic during stage one restrictions in April.Despite being open since, he says he’s seeing a dropoff in revenue.“We’d usually have a lot more sales than.