From bead suppliers to king cake bakeries, local businesses are still contending with the volatile post-pandemic economy. WWNO reports on how local business are navigating a turbulent international shipping landscape:
After a stay-at-home Carnival season in 2021, and shortened parades in 2022, Mardi Gras is more or less back to normal this year. It took some late-in-the-game hustling to bring in outside law enforcement to supplement New Orleans’ understaffed police force, but krewes are rolling on their full, traditional routes this year, for the first time since 2020.
Mark Flood is the owner of TJ’s Carnival & Mardi Gras Supplies in Terrytown, where shoppers picked through aisles of feather boas and shiny beads of every shape and color on a recent Wednesday morning. Flood even has necklaces bearing tiny masks and hand sanitizer bottles commemorating COVID.The commemorative COVID bead at TJ’s Carnival & Mardi Gras Supplies in Terrytown.
On top of that, he’s had to deal with the cost of freight, which has fluctuated wildly over the course of the pandemic.It doesn’t help that Fat Tuesday falls early this year on Feb. 21. He’ll be hustling to fill orders to krewe members, Bourbon street shops and everyday revelers until then. To boot, he’s short-staffed, which has meant working some marathon days.
One key ingredient at Loretta’s — and one that has given most American consumers sticker shock at the grocery store recently — is eggs. Eggs make up a third of the recipe for their king cakes, Harrison said, and there’s no getting around using them.
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