{"id":2458466,"date":"2020-05-14T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=325753"},"modified":"2020-05-14T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T03:28:00","slug":"march-retail-sales-nosedive-in-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/march-retail-sales-nosedive-in-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"March retail sales nosedive in Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen\u2019s retail economy took a battering as expected in March, according to a report the city\u2019s Finance Department issued this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Revenue amounted to $54.6 million in March, down 43.6% in March 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">March is one of the biggest month for retailers, but public health orders shut down nonessentials businesses in the third week in March, while restaurants were relegated to takeout service only, among other restrictions spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Here\u2019s how March shaped up among the 12 retail sectors through which the city collects sales taxes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Accommodations \u2014 $14.9 million, down 57.5% from March 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Restaurants and bars \u2014 $6.7 million, down 59.6%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Sports equipment\/clothing \u2014 $3.4 million, down 59.2%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Clothing \u2014$2.8 million, down 60.2%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Food\/drug \u2014 $4.8 million, down 10.7%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Liquor \u2014 $910,071, down 14%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Miscellaneous \u2014 $5.9 million, down 5.4%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Construction \u2014 $6.2 million, down 6.8%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Luxury goods \u2014 $2 million, down 38.3%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Utilities \u2014 $4.9 million, up 8.4%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Automobile \u2014 $1.1 million, up 5.5%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2022 Marijuana \u2014 $900,215, down 41.4%<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Through March, Aspen\u2019s retail economy generated $241 million in revenue; that\u2019s 10.7% off the pace of the first quarter of 2019, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/march-retail-sales-nosedive-in-aspen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen\u2019s retail economy took a battering as expected in March, according to a report the city\u2019s Finance Department issued this week. Revenue amounted to $54.6 million in March, down 43.6% in March 2019. March is one of the biggest month for retailers, but public health orders shut down nonessentials businesses in the third week in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 16:15:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}