As a small business, TukTuk YumYum Sweet Treats often struggles to reach the threshold of a bulk order when purchasing supplies. This means they often still pay retail prices.

When it comes to sales, inventory, hiring, credit conditions and more, small business owners are wary.

Samantha Wallace of From Field and Flower considers changing her supplier network in response to changes in trade regulations and rising costs.

Ahead of March retail sales numbers, a Seattle candlemaker shares how her economy is doing.

Phillip Rollins, owner of OffBeat, says people saw him on the news and supported his shop by helping to clean up and dry things off.

The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have rattled some small business owners, even though contagion hasn’t spread to smaller banks.

Businesses that received some federal pandemic loans could defer paying for two years, meaning most are coming due this year.

For Venita Cooper, owner of Silhouette Sneakers & Art, business is up. But will it last? “The big challenge is just trying to keep engagement,” she says.

In 2022, over two-thirds of Greenbar Distillery’s sales were in the non-alcoholic market. For owners Litty Mathew and Melkon Khosrovian, that means that non-alcoholic drinks are going to be part of their future.

Growing the business “has stretched me and changed me in all the good ways, and also in all the really hard ways,” says photographer Liz Hansen.