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littlemissmartypants

(22,418 posts)
Sat May 9, 2020, 12:21 AM May 2020

I Hired a Team of Secret Shoppers to Find Out How Businesses Were Opening in Dallas. It's Not Good.

I Hired a Team of Secret Shoppers to Find Out How Businesses Were Opening in Dallas. It’s Not Good.

Mark Cuban's Weblog

Posted on May 7, 2020
I wanted to get an understanding of what opening meant to businesses around Dallas. Were they opening? What precautions were they taking? Were employees in safe environments? And bigger picture, I wanted to know if these are places that I would feel safe taking my family to.
So I hired a company that specialized in this type of project, https://shiftsmart.com/, and asked them to let me know how Dallas businesses were responding to the Open Order for Texas.
We will do this again a couple more times so we can learn what the trends are and try to learn from it.

This is what we found:
Methodology:
We called ~1000 restaurant and retail locations based on popularity (we used # of reviews on Yelp by category as a proxy) to assess full re-open rate (open for dine-in, in-person shopping etc.)
We conducted physical audits at ~300 locations across restaurants and retail locations in Dallas to assess compliance against state re-opening protocols

Overview:
1)Re-opening Rate: Only 36% of businesses chose to open on the opening weekend. Media coverage, showcasing owner sentiment and infection statistics, paint a picture of a large degree of latent fear in the marketplace.

2) Aggregate Degree of Safety Protocol Compliance – By Locations: Overall – 96% of businesses were non-compliant across all mandatory protocols and all locations. The extent of non-compliance is dramatic with ~1/3 of all locations being <50% compliant across mandatory protocols as established by the Governor’s office. The chart below breaks out the degree of compliance across mandatory compliance % buckets.

More at the link.

http://blogmaverick.com/2020/05/07/i-hired-a-team-of-secret-shoppers-to-find-out-how-businesses-were-opening-in-dallas-its-not-good/

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I Hired a Team of Secret Shoppers to Find Out How Businesses Were Opening in Dallas. It's Not Good. (Original Post) littlemissmartypants May 2020 OP
comments section is quite vicious nt msongs May 2020 #1
I didn't look. Thanks for the warning. ❤ nt littlemissmartypants May 2020 #2
I'm glad I don't live in Texas. iemitsu May 2020 #3
I don't live in Texas but we have zero plans to venture back out to any place no matter beachbumbob May 2020 #4
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
4. I don't live in Texas but we have zero plans to venture back out to any place no matter
Sat May 9, 2020, 07:17 AM
May 2020

what the protocols are. Takes just one lapse and my wife and I could catch it and would be fatal to wife for sure,

Nope, our new norm is staying bunkered down until a vaccine is available no matter how long and one doesn't become available, this is our new paradigm

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