Retailers understand reality as tougher restrictions loom
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Shoppers enter and exit Hudson s Bay at the Medicine Hat Mall on Thursday afternoon. Allowed capacity, set by health orders, will be reduced from 25 to 15 per cent of fire code this weekend in an attempt to limit the spread of the coronavirus. NEWS PHOTO COLLIN GALLANT
Local business owner Rob Andreas is giving fellow retailers the same three points of advice he’s provided to the staff of his pet store and anyone else he talks to in the community.
“It’s not great, but it could be worse, and it will get better,” the owner of Animal World told the News on Thursday as steeper restrictions on capacity limits and calls to remain home as much as possible come down this weekend, just two weeks before Christmas and during the busiest shopping period of the year.