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“I know I can’t make money right now even if I’m opened,” she said. “It’s just (about) keeping my business. (That’s) the priority right now.”
Matthew Smith is the co-founder of Modern Gravity, a company that has offered Edmontonians a chance to float in sensory deprivation tanks for the past six years.
He said he wasn’t anticipating reopening so soon as the plan was originally to aim for closer to Jan. 20. He said he and his business partner are still deciding what to do as opening on Monday would be tough.
“Chances are we’re going to be opening up later in the week,” Smith said.
Shane Turgeon, the owner of Shades of Grey Tattoo, said he too wasn’t expecting to reopen so quickly as he was mentally preparing for later in the month.
He said the biggest challenge will be coordinating appointments with his tattoo artists as they all book individually but he was already stocking up on supplies well ahead of when he thought he was going to reopen.
“There’s certainly scrambling on my end to make sure that the shop is fully prepared to open,” Turgeon said. “(A week’s notice) certainly would have helped for booking and scheduling in terms of supplies and stuff like that (but) I’m super proactive. I was ordering from suppliers a week and a half ago. I don’t really trust the province. I don’t trust what they say.”
