I find that people will still spend money on sweets and treats, even though we might be headed to a recession (which I hope is very limited in scope). I am looking forward to a Valentine rally of sorts, not only for the market, but also for our store oldsouhtbakery.com Internet business seems to have paused, but I believe after Feds lower rates (1pt), we in the ecommerce sector will thrive as well as the market does. Look at our business model: OldSouthBakery.com offers, without exception, the finest homemade baked goods and candies available. We pride ourselves on using only the freshest ingredients available. We use pecans right off of our pecan trees (on our Pecan farm). All of our products are made to order from scratch, one batch at a time. We do not add any preservatives or artificially enhanced ingredients to our products. We use traditional old southern recipes handed down from generation to generation, most of them, of course, require pecans. And we use only farm fresh eggs too! But we are a small web based business which must compete with the big companies. So we succumb to the buying power of the biggies who have unlimited advertising budgets of and we show up last on the search engines. Do a search for cake on google or yahoo. These big food companies come up number 1,2,3,4,5,6....Where are we? Even though we pay for ads we still seem to be totally unknown. ...read more