June 10, 2022: My Ageing Town, Losing Barbershop, Winning Massage Shops, （ボクの街の高齢化、負け組の理容店、勝ち組のマッサージ店）

     Like the master of my favourite barbershop and me, my town is getting older, too. The barbershop is suffering a decrease in customers. It fails to acquire new customers. It is losing the old customers on whom it relies, too. Some of them have been unable to come to it with age or have passed away.
     On the other hand, massage shops are booming, which mirrors my ageing town. A lot of new massages shops have begun their businesses in my town. I received a flyer for a new shop yesterday, too. I have about ten shops within a five-minute walk of my home. Massage business is thriving far better than any other business in my town. Services that my town hopes for are changing with the times.

　ガタが来ていると言えば、ボクの街も老化が進んでいるようです。25年通っている理髪店も、お客さんの減少に苦しんでいます。新規顧客は増えない中、付き合いの長いお客さんも失いつつあります。亡くなったり、高齢で店に来られなくなった常連客がいるためです。
　その一方で整骨院や接骨院は新規開店ラッシュです。昨日も、新規開店のチラシが入ってきました。ボクの家から徒歩10分圏内にも、10件もあります。最近の新規開店といえば、接骨院が整骨院です。飲食店や美容院などの新規開店はコロナ発生以降ゼロです。時代にと共に、必要されるサービスも変わりつつあるようです。