PHOTO: Bronte Hiscox and her sister Georgie Hiscox. (Supplied)
After a tough year with little cash to spare, projections for small business sales have been dire, but local businesses are proving the numbers wrong.
According to Business NSW projections, the Far West and Orana region are set to suffer the most when it comes to Christmas trading, with an expected 24 per cent decrease in spending.
It comes at a time where the cost of living has forced people to change their spending habits and rearrange their priorities, and when the national campaign Buy From The Bush closed their online marketplace, recognising that small regional businesses didn’t need the added cost of a secondary selling platform…