Shopping: yes and no
Downtown was fairly busy after reopening on Monday, but the Journal found that Mont-Royal Street has not seen a rush on its stores – but why would that be expected? A lot of folks are necessarily being cautious about how they spend, and many of the merchants along that street deal in non-essentials.
Le Devoir found shopping streets busy.
The Journal also notes that nobody can try makeup samples any more. I don’t like saying “well duh” normally, but, well.
mare 13:05 on 2020-05-26 Permalink
You can definitely add St-Hubert Plaza to the list of not busy shopping streets. I passed there by bike yesterday and the sidewalks are so narrow that I would avoid them as the plague. They’re also started working on the awnings again so the block north of St-Zotique is closed off as well, with even narrower sidewalks.
I saw outside line-ups in front of stores on Beaubien and St-Zotique though.
Bill Binns 11:34 on 2020-05-27 Permalink
The only place I’m really desperate to get into is my barber. I was overdue when they shut the world off and now I have pretty much the same hairstyle I had when I was 14 and a big fan of Heavy Metal.
Michael Black 12:07 on 2020-05-27 Permalink
This all gives me more chance for my hair to grow back.
I thought it was stress and not eating last year, but later I read it was likely the chemotherapy. Nobody warned me about that.
So 48 years of long hair gone. I can’t even remember how long it took to grow back then.
Kate 14:09 on 2020-05-27 Permalink
Michael Black, sorry, but I thought it was common knowledge that chemo can cause hair loss. Sorry to hear it, and I hope the lockdown gives you a chance to feel back to normal.
My hair is getting into Lady of Shalott territory. I too was overdue when everything shut down.