Every day that passes and we're subject to Corona restrictions is another day that consumers get used to a couple things.

Number one, they get used to staying at home.

Number two, they get used to buying

buying online and number three they get used to just buying less.

I'm Jack Howe.

Welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast. The person you just heard is Randy Connick.

He's one of two analysts I spoke with this week about how retail might change

even after the virus is gone. We'll also hear in a bit from Larry Merleau,

as CEO of CVS, the big drug chain,

he's at the intersection of retail and health care.

With me as our audio producer, Meta Lute Soft, hi Meta.

Hey there, Jack. Met I'm told our little podcast is going well out of the gate.

We got some really good reviews. I was happy to see that that I was surprised to open the Wall Street

journal and find a full page ad that had my noggin on it I didn't know it was gonna be

there it's strange to see yourself to see you with a big cartoonish face looking

back at yourself in the newspaper but whoever put that ad there thank you are you

going to frame it jack would that be wrong I'm thinking about it. I bought two copies just in case.

We talked last week about why if you're thinking about putting money to work in the stock market and you're trying to find the bottom.

Stop trying. As long as you're investing for the long term, let's say 10 years or longer,

prices are reasonable enough now.

And I heard passionate responses for and against that

idea. Some people said that's what I've been waiting to hear. We need more

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