Hovsep Besnilian, owner of Concord Shoe Repair for three decades, has been replacing more soles on shoes recently.
(Globe Staff Photo / Joanne Rathe)
The duct-tape economy
Repair businesses thrive in downturn
Hovsep Besnilian, owner of Concord Shoe Repair for three decades, has been replacing more soles on shoes recently.
(Globe Staff Photo / Joanne Rathe)
Fixing is apparently the new buying. Cash-strapped consumers are postponing purchases and attempting to make do with their possessions, repairing old clunkers, mending clothes that haven't left the closet in years, and reviving troublesome laptops and broken blenders. The new thirst for thriftiness is providing a windfall to those on the front lines of repair - the cobblers, the tailors, ... (Full article: 976 words)
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