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November/December 2020 Nevada Retailers are Taking Action to Keep You Safe this Holiday Season By Mary Lau INCE LAST SPRING, average, completing their NEVADA’S RETAILERS shopping. This is allowing HAVE BEEN ON THE retailers to increase or slow FRONTLINES OF traffic into stores to keep their Sthis pandemic, and we have occupancy well below current made a lot of changes to the restrictive limits. shopping experience to keep These are just a few of the our customers and employees things retailers are doing to safe. Some of these new keep their customers safe this safety precautions are clearly holiday shopping season, but visible throughout the stores we can’t do it alone. There is while some new technology no connection between an is working behind the scenes. increase in cases from the This holiday season, Nevada’s Mary Lau, RAN CEO shopping experience, but retailers are ready to do our to efficiently fulfil orders Continued on page 2 part to keep our communities with fewer touchpoints and safe. exposure. Additionally, many INSIDE Shopping during the stores have adopted new New York Retailer Asks pandemic looks much employee health screenings Congress to Approve Pandemic different than it did a year where employees are Risk Insurance Act .........................2 ago. When you visit a encouraged to take their Retail is a Steady Eddy in a retailer, you will likely now temperature before they World Awash in Uncertaintly ........3 find dedicated parking for arrive at work and stay home Electronic Prescribing curb-side pickup, directional if they are experiencing any Regulations in Nevada ..................4 markers throughout the store, symptoms of COVID. RAN Judicial spaced at least 6 feet apart, The newest technologies Endorsements ................................5 and plastic partitions at each being added this year use NRF Chief Economist Says cash register. infrared sensors and artificial Strong Retail Sales Growth In addition to what intelligence to monitor the Points to the Resiliency you see in-store, there are number of customers in of Consumers .................................5 countless other precautions store at any given time. This Nevada Retailers taking place behind the means retailers are able to Adjust for 2020 Holiday scenes to keep you safe. make real-time decisions Shopping Season ...........................8 E-commerce availability and based on not just how many Wall Street Journal popularity has exploded, people are entering the store Recognizes Kroger Family of Stores .............................9 making it easier for retailers but how quickly they are, on Retail Association of Nevada • www.rannv.org New York Retailer Asks Congress to Approve Pandemic Risk Insurance Act NEW YORK read back through the email the Terrorism Risk Insurance from the current COVID-19 CITY GIFT conversations, my heart just Act, which was enacted after pandemic, and would be SHOP OWNER sinks at the desperation in the attacks of September capped at $750 billion. TESTIFYING my tone as I slowly realized 11, 2001, made it difficult Cantrell, who onA behalf of the National what was happening.” for businesses to obtain eventually obtained a Retail Federation today Cantrell said her claim insurance coverage against Paycheck Protection Program called on Congress to was denied even though acts of terrorism. loan and was able to reopen approve legislation that she pays over $6,000 a year The new measure this summer after being would help businesses for business insurance, would require that insurance closed for three months obtain insurance coverage including a business companies offer business through Easter and Mother’s for future pandemics. interruption clause she interruption policies that cover Day, said she lost nearly half “When my team thought would cover lost pandemics but would create a of the more than $300,000 and I discussed closing income in “crisis situations.” federal backstop program that in sales she made during the on Friday, March 13 — “The past few months would reimburse insurers when same period last year. yes, Friday the 13th — I have been the darkest in my claims related to a pandemic or While PRIA would cover immediately called my life,” she said. “Navigating the epidemic exceed $250 million only future pandemics, insurance company,” uncertainty of a business I nationwide. Cantrell said it “still needs said Ann Cantrell, owner have dedicated years of my Covered businesses to be passed as soon of Annie’s Blue Ribbon life to has been so sad and would have to demonstrate as possible because we General Store in Brooklyn. stressful.” that they had suffered never know when the next “However, harsh Cantrell testified significant business pandemic will come — we reality soon set in. I quickly before the House Financial interruption with a sharp certainly didn’t see this one learned that viruses and Services Committee during decline in revenue. coming.” pandemics were excluded an online subcommittee Coverage would also She urged Congress from insurance policies like hearing on the Pandemic be required for large to pass some form of aid mine years ago and even Risk Insurance Act. gatherings, ranging from for businesses affected by though we were ordered Developed with input sporting events to concerts COVID-19 in the meantime to close our business by from NRF and sponsored to conventions, that are even if not in the form the governor, there would by Representative Carolyn canceled. The program of business interruption be no relief from our Maloney, D-N.Y., the would cover only future insurance assistance insurance company. As I legislation is modeled on pandemics, not claims as such. ■ NRF Nevada Retailers Taking Action Continued from page 1 that doesn’t mean we can’t This holiday season can score some great deals working hard to keep their make greater efforts to take advantage of the new from your own home, stores safe this holiday “shop smart” this holiday technology to not just and when you do visit a season. With a little season. If all Nevadans took get some great deals but store, make a plan to limit preparation and a lot of a few more precautions, also do your part to slow the amount of time you cooperation, we can all we can all work together the spread of COVID. By need to complete your work together to make to reduce the spread of utilizing e-commerce and shopping. this a memorable and safe COVID. app-based shopping, you Nevada retailers are holiday season. ■ 2 ◆ www.rannv.org • Retail Association of Nevada Retail is a Steady Eddy in a World Awash in Uncertainty O SURPRISE to people wanting to fill open during the early HERE; THE their time, and who did stages of the COVID-19 RETAIL so by completing a home pandemic, it‘s interesting INDUSTRY improvement project to note Americans Nhas provided some degree which previously remained get something out of of certainty in an uncertain uncompleted. shopping. And, let’s face it, world. Sure, there was a As essential businesses even the poorest amongst brief period when people they remained open at a us — as compared to the stopped shopping except time when others were less fortunate people in for the basics. Yet, when only able to offer online or other parts of the world reflecting upon the last curbside sales. To be fair, — have plenty of material many months, retail others would also have goods. Andy Peterson became an outlet for those made gains had they been Shopping provides commodity we all seek. stuck at home. able to remain open as some psychological Whether choice, control, or Witness the sales and well. Some businesses were fulfillment in people’s lives. absolute certainty is your earnings reports from the disadvantaged, and some Perhaps it is an abundance thing, retail helps provide major home improvement closed as a result. However, of choice, the ability for them. Given what we’ve one to all been through, and control one’s continue to experience, environ- retails’ strength, as ment, or the demonstrated by its ability absolute to deliver, will continue to certainty of be a source of comfort to being able Americans. to meet our We all are happy supply needs and lines remained relatively wants that intact, that we were able brings a to get most things we large degree wanted, and that we could of comfort count on the retail industry in a recent in a world awash with environment uncertainty. in which The next time you walk chains. They have had a as an industry retail remains comfort was hard to into a store, or shop online, few banner quarters when strong. come by. you can be grateful one of others have struggled. Aside from the fairness Comfort, however one the most reliable industries This is due, in large part, of who was able to remain might describe it, is the of all time is there for you. ■ ◆ 3 Retail Association of Nevada • www.rannv.org Electronic Prescribing Regulations in Nevada By Liz MacMenamin HE NEVADA the biggest concern of a will give the prescriber BOARD OF prescriber as it is for the another year in which PHARMACY pharmacist to set up their system to PASSED Electronic prescribing electronically prescribe. TLCB File No. R083-20. has been proven to be Medicare has also Beginning January 1, safer than a handwritten adopted this and 2021, the regulation prescription in that will require this for is being promulgated the pharmacist will no all Medicare patients’ because of passage AB310 longer have to try to prescriptions, not just in 2019 and becomes decipher the effective January 1. 2021. prescribers This law requires Liz MacMenamin illegible providers to employ electronically. handwriting. electronic prescribing There were prescribers It will also when prescribing on the call that voiced be a more controlled substances.