Influenced his decision to lift that mandate. other counties in colorado are ending their mask mandates as well as the surge declines. cnn s lucy kafanov live this morning from denver. it is a big shift, lucy, for families certainly, residents, for businesses too. reporter: that s right, jim. a huge shift for businesses including the denver grocery store, which as of this morning is not requiring masks for employees or staff. some employees and business and patrons are choosing to keep theirs on. the manager here says he doesn t want his staff to be in a position of being the mask police. they re following the county guidelines that were set out as of this morning. now, some denver restaurants are choosing to keep their mandates in place. really is up to individual businesses now to decide what it is they want to do about the mask rules. we have seen several denver metro area front range counties dropping their mandates. denver, with a 78% vaccination