By DAVID DUPONT
BG Independent News
A 60-mile commute and two full time jobs have convinced the owners of a downtown shop to consign the enterprise to their rear view mirrors.
Mosaic Consignment Studio will close later this month. Details of the closing are pending. Bill Miller, who owns the shop with his wife, Colleen Miller, said the business was doing fine but “honestly not enough to warrant staying in business.”
The couple lives in Trenton, Michigan, and each has a full-time job. “It got to be a lot to handle,” Miller said.
They opened the shop five years ago on the northwest corner of the Four Corners in downtown Bowling Green because of Colleen’s love of fashion. Bill Miller went to graduate school at Bowling Green State University, and they like the city. They were visiting when they saw the space was open. They were surprised there wasn’t already a consignment shop here. Trenton, they said, has three. So they decided to give the business a shot.
They’ve enjoyed the business and the shop’s staff and customers. Miller said his involvement is usually outside of business hours. “My wife and the people who work here always glow about the people who come in and the things that come in and out of the shop.”
He said in the five years they’ve had some “great people who worked for us.”
Still the time had come to close. “It’s a monkey off our backs,” he said. “It’s bittersweet.”
Customers bring clothing in to the shop. The items are consigned on a 60-day contract. At the end of that period the consigners can come in to get their share of the sales revenue and pick up what hasn’t sold. Or they can just leave the items in the shop. Clothing left more than 60 days is then sold at a discount. Eventually if it doesn’t sell, it is donated to charity. That’s where anything not sold or retrieved will go when Mosaic closes.
The Millers opted not to sell the business and its name. They may want to open the shop up again, Bill Miller said, though probably closer to home.
For details on Mosaic’s last days visit: https://www.mosaicconsignmentstudio.com/
