Iwate Department store reopens due to cancellation of leave request New Coronavirus May 7 18:29
Iwate Prefecture has no confirmed infection so far. A long-established department store in Morioka City has restarted operations at all stores in the prefecture for the first time in 13 days from the 7th, following the fact that Iwate Prefecture did not extend the request for closure.
The long-established department store "Kawatoku" headquartered in Morioka City was temporarily closed from the 25th of this month to the 6th of this month, except for the food floor, at six stores in the prefecture.
The department store resumed business after shortening the opening time from 7th in response to the prefecture's response to not extending the request for holidays, and at the store in Morioka city, shoppers were seen on each floor for the first time in 13 days. It was
When resuming business, measures such as installing transparent sheets and acrylic boards at information counters and cash registers, and attaching leaflets requesting customers who do not wear masks to refrain from visiting the store are taken.
Only on the restaurant floor, the resumption was postponed because the measures against infectious diseases were not in place.
Kawanori Kohei Ito, Manager of Business Planning, said, “It will be a steep road because it still takes time to recover customers, but we want to balance infection prevention and business maintenance for the local economy.” .
Guest houses that stop accepting guests
At the guesthouse in Tanohata Village, Iwate Prefecture, which has stopped accepting guests to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, sales have fallen by nearly 90%, and savings have been cut down and management continues.
Since many tourists from outside the prefecture visit Shirahana Shakunageso, a guesthouse in Tanohata Village, we voluntarily withheld our guests from the middle of last month when the emergency declaration was expanded nationwide, and we continue to operate only the restaurant. It was.
However, in order to prevent infection in the cafeteria, the distance between the seats has been increased and the seats have been arranged so that they do not face each other. As a result, it is said that now only 7 people can sit in the store where about 40 people could sit. .
Overall sales are said to have decreased by 90% compared to the average year, and it is said that the number of working days of employees has been reduced by half.
About 30 letters of encouragement have been sent to the guesthouses by regular customers, and we want to resume accepting guests when the emergency declaration is lifted.
President Shirahana Shakunageso's president, Tadashi Awabuchi, said, "Since the state of emergency has been declared, we have managed to deal with the situation while saving money. This situation is difficult to continue, but I want to be patient for a while and work hard to restart." I was talking.