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Hey, everybody. I'm here with Courtney Reagan, who many of you probably recognize at CNBC. She is a senior retail reporter.

As part of her coverage in the retail sector, she has interviewed many, many CEOs from Walmart, Target, Macy's Coles, Home Depot, et cetera, et cetera. And she also contributes to market coverage of the New York

Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. Courtney, great to have you on. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Yes. Hey, so I want to jump right in. Obviously, you know, things are starting to open up, I guess,

in some cases and not necessarily worldwide, but in the U.S.

and I know you cover a lot. I looked at your stuff. It's really kind of neat. You're going

into these retail businesses. You're talking to the heads of these companies. What types of

retail businesses do you see rebounding the most strongly and which ones you think are going to

need a little bit more time to

recover. Yeah. So it's funny. There's all these different silos in retail. And of course,

when the pandemic began, the government classified many as essential and non-essential. And so if you

were an essential retailer that you were a Home Depot, you were a Walmart, you were a

target, you were a winner almost by default because of what the government had decided

was necessary to keep the public safe. But if you were Macy's, if you were a Coles, if you're

an Abercrombie, you were out of luck and you were forced to close your doors and serve shoppers only

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