Assignment 9
Melissa Moua
JRN 14
11/09/2017
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(Anchor): Businesses such as tea shops, ice cream shops and yogurt shops usually show a decrease in sales during the fall season.
(Images of Maya cinemas)
(Reporter): While each season last three months, businesses peak for those kinds of jobs during the spring and summer.
There are lines out the door on hot summer nights with customers wanting ice cream, yogurt and tea, but you won’t find those lines during the cold winter nights.
Prime example of lost sales, Sweet Lyfe Boba Bar, located at Campus Pointe, right besides Maya Theaters, has been hit by the effects of the cold weather.
Irvin Amaya, shift leader at Sweet Lyfe Boba Bar, says that during the summer, usually 3 to 4 people would close at night. Now that it is getting colder, only 2 people would close.
(Witness): “We don’t get a lot of people coming in during this season, so we don’t get really busy and work is usually slow,” Amaya said. “We also changed the hours during the fall and winter seasons from closing at 10 pm to 9 pm.
(Reporter): While in Sweet Lyfe Boba Bar, you can see that there is only one person sitting down inside the store. Not only is there only one person sitting and watching videos, you can see that the workers are doing just about anything to keep busy.
(Witness): “I don’t mind when it is slow, it gives us time to close very quickly, but time does go by very slowly.”
(Reporter): With the difference in sales, local shops still maintain to stay open instead of closing for the colder seasons because there is still some kind of income and it is still guaranteed to get a few people into their shops.