Antique Shop Owner Selling Stuff Nobody Wants Blames Parking Meters for Declining Sales

HENDERSONVILLE, AL – Focused on the Past Antique shop owner, Clementine Stuart, blames the recently installed parking meters in Hendersonville for her decline in sales. The meters, installed in early January, were supposed to help local businesses by creating turnover and opening up parking spaces for customers to patronize downtown business. Instead, Clementine believes the parking meters are hurting her business. “How can customers pay one dollar for parking, and then have enough money to pay two thousand dollars for a rare butter churn allegedly used in the Civil War,” says Stuart. “I find it disgraceful. It’s a money grab for the City. I haven’t sold one antique flyswatter since the meters went in, and they’ve been on sale for just seven hundred dollars apiece.” When relaying Stuarts comments to the City, City parking manager Tony Long responded with ,“We are focused on the future, and believe the parking meters will help solve our parking problems and bring in revenue that will be invested back into the downtown community.”