When the family run store turned 60 last week, it held a more modest 25-per-cent-off sale online.
“We talked about (60 per cent off),” co-owner David McKie said. But he and his wife, Jessica Bowie, worried people might think COVID-19 was forcing them out of business.
The store shut temporarily because of the pandemic, but since October has reopened its doors. Closing permanently was never a consideration, McKie said.
McKie’s dad Roger was 19 when he opened the store in 1961 with $10,000 worth of stock loaned to him by a Toronto haberdashery he had worked at to gain experience. Today, adjusted for inflation, that would be almost $90,000 of fabric.