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🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Mr. New York, Mark Simone, on W-O-R. |
0:06.5 | Well, we've got lots to get to this hour. |
0:08.8 | There is stuff opening up all around the tri-state area. |
0:14.7 | Connecticut is open as we speak. |
0:17.0 | It's after 11 restaurants are open right now in Connecticut. |
0:20.7 | You can go to a store. You can go to a store. |
0:22.1 | You can go to a restaurant. Offices are allowed to open. They have to wear masks and keep their |
0:26.1 | distance. They've asked in Connecticut for the big retail stores to try to, they can't go above |
0:32.3 | 50% capacity. Now, before the crisis, they were at 5% capacity. So I don't think the 50% goal is going |
0:39.9 | to be tough. What was the last time you went to a big department store and saw anybody |
0:46.0 | there? It's a long time ago, yeah. You know, the great thing was they used to be very |
0:51.3 | snotty in some of those stores. You know, nobody helped you, nobody wait on you, or you'd have to wait to pay for it. And then over the last few years, |
0:59.2 | we hate to see retail die, but just last fall, you're going to a store, you're the only |
1:03.9 | customer there. You're going to have 12 salesmen if you want. You never had to wait to pay |
1:07.5 | for anything. So I think the stores will get very crowded now. |
1:11.2 | This might change everything because people are so desperate just to socialize, you know, |
1:16.8 | in the middle of the afternoon and you're not working. |
1:18.7 | You've got time going to a store. |
1:20.4 | At least you can see somebody, talk to somebody, feel like you went somewhere and did something. |
1:24.7 | So Connecticut is open right now. |
1:29.0 | The hair salons have been delayed. |
1:32.6 | They will probably open June 1st. |
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