Chris Jolliffe said he and his wife, Beth, did not have a choice. They HAD to close Your CBD Store, the shop they own in downtown Washington.
“If we were making money, we’d stay open. But we were not making money,” he said Tuesday afternoon, explaining why the couple will shut down their hemp store operation after business on Friday, Sept. 30.
The Jolliffes, Beaver County residents with a teenage son and daughter, launched their endeavor in early August 2019 at 14 N. Main St. That was about six months before the pandemic descended upon Southwestern Pennsylvania, which not only has affected their operation during the past 2 ½ years, but is a major source of rampant inflation.
To accommodate customers based at their Washington store, the Jolliffes have provided a list of those patrons to an established CBD store manager based in Bellevue, near Pittsburgh’s North Side. Orders generally run to $35.
Chris Jolliffe, 47, does have another job, as a residential and commercial building inspector in Beaver County. He won’t miss the two-hour round trips between home and Washington. “To and from the store, I’ve put about 50,000 miles on our car,” he said.
But he will miss working along North Main.
“I wouldn’t have done anything differently. Too bad we couldn’t continue it,” Jolliffe said.
