Originally Posted by
pheoxs
Perhaps you are overlooking the fact that you may gain clients after this. There's lots of people out there that are vaccinated but still being cautious, especially parents. As cases drop you may find a number of people feel safer attending group fitness classes if they know everyone in the class has also been vaccinated.
I'd bet that places are going to see a net decline in customers and/or revenue with this.
A business that implements this now loses whatever portion of their clientele were unvaccinated, in addition to a portion of people who are going to simply choose not to patronize them even if they are vaccinated. That business now has to hope that the vaccine passport a) brings more people out of their homes to return to businesses and b) makes the people who will patronize their business increase their spend in order to offset the reduction they're going to see from the exclusions, as well as the increased cost needed to have a staff member babysit the door for the entire time they're open. And if they choose to not increase their staffing to cover that new need, their customer service is going to suffer when there is one less person on the floor.
It's going to be worse for retail probably, because I get zero benefit from choosing to visit a store that implements it versus one that doesn't or using Amazon; still have to wear a mask inside, still have to distance. The only "benefit" is showing proof of vaccination. Not to mention all the arguments that are going to pop up when each business decides for themselves what proof is good enough or not
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