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A Cold Closing Local Delicatessen Shutting doors after 10 years

Junior Jozie Pyatt stands behind the counter of Dags Delicatessen. The door opens and she greets a customer with a bittersweet smile. Dags, located off Highway 46 on the west side of Columbus, is closing its doors on October 31. This means Pyatt will be losing more than a job.

“When I heard it was closing honestly I was pretty upset because it was my first job, meaning it was really sentimental to me, like a home basically,” Pyatt said.

With the closing of the Dags, the infamous “Blue Moon Ice Cream” and made to order sandwiches will be missed, but the bigger picture is that local business have it hard.

Dags is just one out of the many local businesses that have struggles and often members of a community forget that. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20 percent of small businesses close by the end of their first year. By the end of their fifth year that number rises to 50 percent, and by the tenth year, that number reaches 80 percent. Pyatt shares her belief in why it is important to support local businesses.

“It's important to support a local business because such regular, booming businesses are trying to push their way in. So if we don't support our own cities’ businesses they're eventually going to be all gone, meaning Columbus is not going to be something worth seeing. We're unique & it should stay that way,” Pyatt said.

Although Dags is closing its doors, citizens of Columbus still have the opportunity to support what makes this small town so unforgettable.

“What I'm going to miss the most is being able to walk into the door to Dags and feel so welcomed. Feeling like I was part of something more than a job but a family. It was such a cool place, basically a diamond in the rough and it was a shame not so many people knew about it,” Pyatt said.

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