Businesses adjust as pandemic measures ease up
Sarah Beal owns Common Deer in Burlington with her mother. Seen on Friday, May 14, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
Modified: 5/23/2021 9:09:57 PM
As the weather warms, vaccination rates increase and mask mandates fall by the wayside, shops across the state say it’s starting to look like “business as usual” for the first time since the pandemic began.
A noticeable change has taken hold for the past four or five weeks, and especially on the weekends, said Kim Souza, owner of White River Junction clothing store Revolution.
Every day, she said, “there are people walking in the door saying they just got vaccinated. This is the first time they’ve been inside a store in a year, that kind of thing,” Souza said.