FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) – It’s been months since we locked ourselves in our homes to escape the coronavirus, but it’s become transparent that we learned a new way of living and working.
Knowledge of the recently published sales tax shows the extent to which we were forced to replace, as consumers and, like, after the economy closes last spring.
Restaurants, the cornerstone of South Florida’s hotel industry, saw business collapse after the dining rooms closed. Bars, clothing stores, beauty salons, bakeries and businesses were considered prohibited for non-walking customers.
Many of these companies have reopened since then, with changes, but knowledge from the Florida Department of Revenue also shows that we have spent more cash in unexpected places.
Increased construction activity. The call to the renovation of the house never decays. And paint machining workshops had more paints when corporations learned there was little threat to run away.
Sales were uniform in South Florida; pawnshops, for example, have noticed that their businesses grew in Broward and Miami-Dade but fell in Palm Beach County, according to data; aircraft sales increased in Miami-Dade but fell in Broward and Palm Beach. .
The South Florida Sun Sentinel is aware of taxable sales between April and May 2020 and the same months of 2019.
– Sales in the meat and poultry market nearly doubled in Broward County, from $2. 1 million in April and May 2019 to $4 million in the same months of this year, an increase of 93. 2%. beef is worth inflation and scarcity after the closure of some of the country’s largest meat processing plants.
Large supermarket chains like Publix have struggled to keep their meat coolers well stocked, and many chains have limited the number of packages consumers can buy on a singles visit.
That’s when specialty retailers like Broward Meat
Higher sales at Delaware Chicken
However, meat and poultry markets in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties did not see an increase: sales fell 15. 9% in Palm Beach County and 1. 5% in Miami-Dade.
– Specialized craftsmanship flourished in Palm Beach County as sales increased in many categories of home and business services. $20 million.
Fred Johnson Jr. , vice president of production and welding facilities in the relative control circle in West Palm Beach, said operations never slowed quarantine. “We didn’t shoot anyone. We haven’t slowed down at all,” he said. much of what we do are high-money houses, and those (owners) have not been affected. “
Revenues from electricity, plumbing, well drilling and pipe construction increased by 18. 4% from $5. 6 million to $6. 6 million, while distributors of paint, wallpaper and hardware saw their sales increase by 6. 1% from $32. 6 million to $34. 6 million.
Proceeds from milling, casting and iron paints increased in all 3 counties: 28. 7% in Palm Beach, 15% in Miami-Dade and 5. 7% in Broward.
– Palm Beach County paint, wallpaper and hardware distributors were also working hard. This is the latest South Florida component with significant land for the structure of new homes and developers had no explanation as to why avoid running on the structure sites, which remain open to brand new air until the carpet enters. Sales over 6. 1% from $32. 6 million to $34. 6 million, 4. 1% in Broward and 2. 8% in Miami-Dade.
– Bulldozers continued to roll in Broward. Sales of rock, plant land, clay, sand and embankments increased by 20. 2%, from $3. 1 million to $3. 7 million, in Broward, while sinking into Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. Dirt is for everyone, types of construction, whether it’s for new houses on wasteland or for new advances where old buildings have been demolished. Limestone, extracted in the quarries southwest of Broward and northwest Miami-Dade, is used to build roads. it’s a sign that investors didn’t think the slowdown would last long.
– We haven’t stopped eating and drinking in South Florida. Maybe we’ve done more. Sales at retail food and beverage outlets, adding supermarkets and independent liquor retail outlets, increased 4. 9% in Palm Beach, 2. 7% in Broward, 2. 4% in Miami-Dade, and 3. 7% state-round.
Most of this accumulation occurred in April, when consumers were still buying fundamental goods that they can find on store shelves. In April in April, sales increased 7. 9% in Miami-Dade, 6. 3% in Broward and 10. 4% in Palm Beach.
The accumulation exceeded that of food, which was 4. 1% for the year ended in April.
As there were many fewer tourists in the domain in April, knowledge probably won’t reveal the degree of accumulation of resident expenses during the year.
With the dining rooms closed, the pandemic has been an inadvertent blessing for supermarkets. Publix reported a 21. 8% increase in sales in the monetary quarter from April to June.
“While we don’t separate our (data) from sales across the county, we can say that we saw an increase in the number of visitors passing through the time of the quarter,” Publix spokeswoman Maria Brous said via email. “In part, we have noticed that panic purchases occur and give a percentage of the industry’s recoverability. We just needed to give him a chance to get back to a certain sense of normalcy.
Although alcohol sales are not harmed by state knowledge or Publix’s earnings report, global knowledge company Nielsen reported a 33% increase in off-site spirits sales in the US. But it’s not the first time During the 12 weeks ended on mayo. la loss of bar and dining room sales, Nielsen said, and the huge difference in value between retailers and bars has particularly reduced the amount of cash we spend on alcohol.
– The cash that consumers stored by buying alcohol at retail outlets was lost in the restaurants and bars where we spent it.
Since bar intake in South Florida has been closed since March 17, sales declines of just 53. 7% in Broward, 63% in Miami-Dade and 46. 4% in Palm Beach seem strangely small. governor Ron DeSantis’ resolution last March to allow them to sell packaged drinks and takeaway cocktails.
Bars with the attached package were also allowed to remain open as long as consumers were not allowed to drink on site.
For some time after the final, 26 Degree Brewing Company at Pompano Beach controlled to retain about 70% of its operations before final takeaway sales, co-owner Yonathan Ghersi said.
“It is largely our unwavering clientele in Pompano. In addition, we have reduced the costs of all our products. We were promoting six packs of our craft beer for maybe $1 or $2 more than the (mass-produced) beers,” he says.
But in recent months, while restaurants were allowed to reopen their canteens, many of those normal consumers stopped buying takeaway drinks and the business fell to about 10% of pre-closing levels, he said.
Gheris said he was spending $10,000 to install a pizza oven, freezer and plexiglass shields so that the brewery simply downloads a place license to eat and reopens for admission to the site. places to eat when your brewery should stay closed.
“It’s okay to move to a place to eat and order a drink without ordering food, but we can’t be open,” he said. “What motivates these decisions?”
Following his June 26 order that he demanded that newly reopened bars be closed unless in South Florida, where they were not allowed to reopen, Halsey Beshears, head of the Department of Commercial and Professional Regulation, accused homeowners and bar consumers of a resurgence of the spread of coronavirus in A claimed that owners and consumers had not complied with capacity limits and social distance rules.
– The decline in clothing retail stores was more pronounced in South Florida. Our region is known for its fashion sense. Many of us dress better than the average Floridan, partly because of our concentration of corporate offices and downtown shopping districts. were quarantined, we had enough clothes in our closet to pass.
Clothing and accessories outlets experienced falls of more than 70% in all 3 Counties of South Florida, more than the 66. 8% drop reported state-round.
– If you don’t want clothes, you don’t want shoes. Working from home means you don’t wear heels or wealthy soles. Don’t rub your shoes when you stumble in the elevator. Don’t sink your ankle into the puddles either, while leaving pictures after a summer storm.
Anyway, who wears shoes at home? Although stores have tried to convince us to order shoes online, footwear retailers have noticed a 77. 6% drop in sales in Broward, 75. 5% in Miami-Dade and 78. 6% in Palm Beach County. clothing sales, those losses exceeded the drop of 71. 8% across the state.
Across the country, shoe sales fell by 87% in April and 56% in May, according to the worldfootwear. com Industry’s online page Industry analysts attributed the decline to retail store closures, home orders for workers, and sports suspension in schools and universities. .
– Pawnshops were “must-haves”. Second-hand outlets have been closed. Like the Swap Shop. Garage sales were prohibited. But thanks to federal stimulus bills that put $1,200 more in the hands of the maximum taxpayers, we had cash to spend. Many of us went to 15. 9% Higher Sales Pawnshops in Broward and 6. 4% in Miami-Dade.
Josh Davis, owner of GCPawn, which owns nine retail establishments in Broward County, said families went to the company’s nine Broward County retail establishments for anything that could remain busy children. “They were discovered saying, “Hi, my children are home and have to be busy. We want to do anything. “
They collected consoles and controllers from video games, bicycles, surfboards, laptops and electronic and gymnastics equipment, adding loose weights, Davis said.
Uncertainty surrounding closure also led to an increase in arms purchases through first-time buyers, he said.
Sales have declined since April and May with the reopening of the economy, he said.
In DeSantis’ emergency order at the end of March that companies deserve to close, pawnshops were thought to be essential and allowed to remain open because low-income citizens depended on them to off-loan. across the country due to federal stimulus pay and rising unemployment gain benefits of $600 consistent with the week, the parent company of the Value Pawn chain said in its latest earnings report.
Credit activity is expected to pick up as the stimulus budget runs out, the company said.
However, pawnshops in other parts of the state have behaved as well as they did in Broward and Miami-Dade. State awareness shows that sales declined by 45. 3% in Palm Beach County and 51. 1% across the state.
Davis, who is also president of the Florida Pawnbrokers Association, said he had no idea why knowledge of this activity in some spaces declined in April and May. “That’s the feeling I’ve gained from other runners,” he said.
Other results:
– Aircraft sales increased by 10. 4% in Miami-Dade County, from $9. 1 million to $10 million, while they fell 29% in Broward and Palm Beach counties and 13. 2% state-round.
– Sales of steel roofs and sheets increased by up to 585. 7% in Miami-Dade declined in Broward and Palm Beach.
– Sales of steel scrap and fabrics recovered from scrap deposits increased by up to 129. 4% in Broward, 5. 2% in Palm Beach and 20. 8% state-round, but fell in Miami-Dade.
– Car sales and leasing fell 34. 9% in the 3-country region, a figure that would have been worse if large distributors had not already shifted much of their sales and management purposes to their virtual operations, While many stores removed print and electronic media advertising in the spring, auto dealers maintained a significant presence. “The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift in customer behavior toward virtual engagement,” said AutoNation, a Fort Lauderdale-based mega-retailer, in its second-quarter earnings report.