In Quebec, the gradual lifting of sanitary measures is delighting merchants and their customers, but are some of them here to stay?
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Wearing a mandatory mask, ban on eating or drinking in certain spaces, customer limits, arrows on the ground: several measures put forward to curb the COVID-19 epidemic are still part of the daily life of merchants.
That said, most of them believe that their numbers will only decrease as the number of cases and hospitalizations come down.
“The impression we have is that the more it goes, the less there will be. I think that people too have now taken individual measures for their own protection more than collective measures, ”says Jean-Guy Côté, director general of the Conseil québécois de commerce de retail.
However, according to Martine Robert, director of corporate communications and media relations at National, companies should not dispose too quickly of the equipment they had to obtain to comply with the requirements of the health authorities.
“At the moment, in Europe, we are seeing a certain increase in cases. So, often, we have learned over the past two years that from 3 to 4 weeks, what happens in Europe happens here, in Quebec. So, I would tell you from a communications point of view not to keep too far away the various tools that have been created. Because it’s a lot of time, it’s a lot of money,” she says.
Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com