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Originally Posted by TommyW
What’s your take on allowing corporate stores like Costco etc to prosper while shutting down small businesses?
Or social distancing in airports then being elbow to elbow on the plane 10 minutes later?
I would love to hear from all of you? This will be interesting
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Well, which specific small business have you been prevented from doing business with? Since March I have been able to support my local restaurants with regular takeout (tipping as if I dined in), go get a haircut at a 4-seat barber (appointment only, 50% capacity, also tipping), hire professionals to maintain/update my house, shop at my local independent grocery, and have my (other) car put back together by an independent collision repair shop. I have not set foot in Costco or similar. The whole time I have worn a mask when out, kept as distant as I could, taken as little time inside as possible, washed hands before and after, and otherwise been away from everyone other than my wife. So my take on supporting small business is that I am doing what I can when I can while meeting all mandated safety precautions. You?
Airplanes should not be packed, airlines should leave space. But mandates and regulations to enforce that would be limiting their freedom I suppose. I was on huge 777 with less than 80 people going from DFW to Orlando for work. That's the way it should be.
Edit, I also work for a small business. We've been doing great, but we aren't really a consumer product kind of company.