Hey Everyone,

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a happy and healthy holiday season. I have started checking in with the CIMS stores, but the word so far is that 2021 was a very successful year for indie retail, despite all our supply chain woes. I feel 2020 was a real gut check for all of us. We learned a lot about our businesses, and we did what we have always done -- we reacted, and we got creative. This is not to say that the pandemic has not created strain and stress for all of us, but it is in these moments that you figure just what you are made of and what you are capable of accomplishing.

I am working now to survey the stores on year-end and holiday numbers and should have results for you in next week’s chart.

Till then, 2022 let’s do this!

Here are the charts,
Andrea

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
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