Crisis at a Local Barbershop

It was April and azaleas were blooming everywhere, but Tim Peterson was not enjoying the beauty around him. He was looking at sales at his one-person barbershop and was frustrated. He simply did not know what to do – he had bills to pay and little in his checking account. He had built a successful business and been in the same location ten years with as much business as he could handle for that time. Revenues had fallen by half in three weeks and he knew his business was in trouble. This had never happened before – sales had not fallen that far and rapidly in his years at the location. The customers were not coming through the front door now that a new barbershop had opened up only a couple of blocks away. They also offered introductory pricing of $12, which was $2 lower than what he charged. This was serious!