BRUSSELS – The self-employed salesman in the capital of Belgium needed to rethink the way he did business during the coronavirus pandemic.
Uncertain supply chains, stricter oversight and customers with financial worries of their own are some of the problems solo entrepreneurs like him encountered as Europe hunkered down.
There's not much a small—time drug dealer can do except seek a new line of work - or adjust. Jerry - an alias he uses to protect his identity - has sold cocaine, marijuana and MDMA - known as ecstasy or Molly on the street - since moving to Brussels from Albania in 2016.
His clientele is regular enough that when he changed his business hours due to a national lockdown, he updated his WhatsApp profile in three languages.