Exclusive: When Rebekah Becsi spoke to A Current Affair last year, she was terrified that roadworks might send her out of business.

Now she's told 9news.com.au she's just weeks away from being forced to shut down.

And help – if it ever comes – might just be too little, too late.

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Becsi runs Pakenham Bulk Foods on Bald Hill Road in Pakenham, about an hour southeast of Melbourne's CBD.

Sales plummeted when Big Build Victoria roadworks blocked off half the road in February last year.

They took another hit when the whole road was blocked a few months later.

"We've had a total 80 per cent decrease in sales from February last year till now," Becsi told 9news.com.au.

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