To: HEY4QDEMS
Restaurant business in Boston is off 30%.Retail sales are off more than that. It's the economy in Boston that has just about everyone's business hurting. Laundries and dry cleaners -- any 'luxury' service is hurting. Eating dinner out is a luxury for many people.
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08/22/2003 8:06:23 AM PDT by
ladyjane
To: ladyjane
Retail sales are off more than that. It's the economy in Boston that has just about everyone's business hurting. Laundries and dry cleaners -- any 'luxury' service is hurting. Eating dinner out is a luxury for many people.
These numbers are in comparison to business figures before the ban took effect which was only a few months ago.
The Boston economy has been soft for about 3 years now but the bars and restaurants have seen some declines in business in that time but nothing remotely like the drop off that resulted from the smoking ban.
To: ladyjane
Retail sales are off more than that. It's the economy in Boston that has just about everyone's business hurting. Laundries and dry cleaners -- any 'luxury' service is hurting. Eating dinner out is a luxury for many people.Funny, our politicians say the same things...... but they are running out of excuses.
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