WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) – Vendors of a former boutique say they’re trying to recover products and payments after Kailey’s Makers Market closed in Wausau.
The business previously operated as Kailey’s Kandles and Company in Marshfield. Court records show owner Kriss Schmitt was evicted from her Marshfield store in September. Vendors say they’ve had difficulty reaching Schmitt to figure out where their products are or how much they earned.
Vendors report missing products, payments
Ben Perlick, owner of Cheap Burro Candles, sold products at the Marshfield store. It’s one of three jobs he has to make ends meet. He said he’s trying to get $1,080 worth of products back from Kriss Schmitt.
” That’s a huge chunk of my inventory, huge charge of, you know, money that I took from my personal savings to start this venture. And it’s like, I’m not taking any more money from my personal income to put into it. So now it’s just, it’s put me back six, eight, 10 months from what I had to build up from less inventory because of this,” said Perlick. Adding he hasn’t heard from Schmitt in months…