Dear Fiesta folks.

What strange (and stressful) times.

The second wave that everyone knew was coming is here. Numbers are still edging in the wrong direction 📈. We’re facing a renewed lockdown. Vaccines seem to be on the horizon.

Simultaneously, while coping with the threat of COVID-19 since March, many of the habits we’ve grudgingly adopted are less panic-inducing. We did not expect to get used to wearing masks. 

In light of the Province’s new restrictions, we thought we’d share a few current considerations:

Grocery Store

• 🕗 HOURS: 8-9 AM Monday-Saturday will continue to be reserved for customers who would be at higher risk if they were to contract the virus.  
• 😷 Masks: Properly worn masks are required to enter both the grocery store and the garden centre. 
• 🛍 Bags: Feel free to bring your own bags, but: please don’t use them to shop with. And please plan to parcel them yourselves. That was extra sad to write.
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Crowd-control: Please try to shop in the smallest group possible. 

Garden Centre 

The Garden centre is COVID-19 business-as-usual, meaning:

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Crowd-control: Please try to shop in the smallest group possible. 
• Masks 😷. 
• Shop online: 🎄Christmas Trees + 🔥🪵 Firewood are available for delivery or curb side pickup.

Support Local

These are tough times for the independent businesses that contribute most to our economy, whose owners and employees spend money locally, and who help make our city the vibrant, dynamic place it usually is. You can check business news at insidemma.

While our hospitality industry, creators, producers, retailers, health practitioners and others are figuring out how to hold on, Jeff Bezos’ wealth has jumped by $90.1 billion, to $203.1 billion, between March and October.

And we don’t mean to single him out–most billionaires are doing well right now. 

We’ve all been doing some digital retail therapy. And of course, convenience is more than just a drug when you’re trying to reduce interactions during a pandemic.

But if you can, when you can, please try to support a local independent business. They need us now. And we need them to be here when this is over.

Thanks for ‘listening’. If you’re a customer, thanks for your patience. If you’re a frontline worker in any capacity, thank you for digging so deep.

See you in the aisles.

FF 🐓.