The Lost Month: January

Dear Client:You editor spent the entire day on the phones yesterday with distributors and brewers. The bottom line: This is the worst January we've had, possibly ever. It seems that people spent heavily over the holidays despite a poor economy and then woke up on January 1 and said, "Holy cow, we have no money!" I got comments ranging from, "The month started off bad and got worse", "Beer sales hit a wall in January", and "We always lose money