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Six Feet Apart with Alex Wagner

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4.8 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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For a country that loves to shop, COVID-19 has forced Americans to focus their spending sprees on toilet paper and masks. What's happened to that favorite American pastime — shopping — in the middle of a pandemic? Is anyone buying? Are warehouses simply filled with stuff… and will it go on sale? This week, Alex talks to Clare Vivier, the designer and owner of the fashion brand Clare V. Clare discusses how she's handled factory closures and shuttered warehouses. Then Alex talks to Kasi, a clerk at a Hobby Lobby in Missouri, whose doors opened to the public last week. She shares her experience going back to work to sell craft supplies, and whether crochet needles count as essential materials in a pandemic.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to six feet apart. I'm Alex Wagner.
0:07.6	There are few things we know for certain in this crisis, but one thing we know beyond the shadow of a doubt,
0:13.0	it is a really good time to be selling toilet paper and masks and gloves and hand sanitizer.
0:21.1	But what about literally everything else that you can buy?
0:25.1	Up until COVID-19 became a global pandemic, Americans especially, were known as lusty consumers,
0:31.7	buying so much so often that the American consumer became the very heart of the national economy.
0:38.2	70% of the U.S. economy is consumer spending.
0:42.3	And that ain't all hand sanitizer, folks.
0:45.7	So what's happened to all that shopping as people have stayed home and gotten increasingly wary
0:50.5	about spending money?
0:52.1	What's happened to the people making all that stuff that we used to
0:55.5	buy so much of? Is it all just sitting in warehouses ready to go on sale? What do you do with
1:01.0	thousands and thousands of handbags and wiffle balls and eye shadow and crochet needles anyway?
1:07.6	And now that stores are beginning to open up to the public, what's going on with the people selling the stuff that we used to buy so much of? Are they busy? Are they scared? That's what we're going to talk about today. Shopping. First, we're going to talk to Claire Vivier, the designer and owner of Claire V, a boutique fashion brand known for its bags and accessories.
1:30.0	And then we'll speak to Cassie, a store clerk at the craft supply store, Hobby Lobby.
1:35.8	Hobby Lobby is a national chain that you may remember from the very high-profile
1:39.9	2012 lawsuit, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a suit that made its way all the way to the Supreme Court
1:46.0	when the company sued the Obama administration for its mandated contraception coverage under
1:51.7	the Affordable Care Act. But before we get to all that, here's Claire Vivier.
2:06.4	Claire, can you give us a sense of your business pre-pandemic?
2:11.9	Yes, we are accessories and clothing brand based in Los Angeles.
2:14.3	We are made in Los Angeles.
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