{"id":2459059,"date":"2020-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=326936"},"modified":"2020-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:00:00","slug":"business-monday-even-the-clothes-are-quarantined-in-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/business-monday-even-the-clothes-are-quarantined-in-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Monday: Even the clothes are quarantined in Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.4959083469722\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-326936-91\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled gallery-container\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Wendy Kunkle wipes the inside of a hat with a Clorox wipe in Kemosabe on Friday, May 29, 2020. To keep customers and employees healthy, the retailer provides hand sanitizer, wipes down hats after a customer tries it on, and enforces social distancing within the store. Kemosabe reopened to the public on Saturday, May 16. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"2.4430379746835\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"15.635443037975\">\n<p><strong>Wendy Kunkle wipes the inside of a hat with a Clorox wipe in Kemosabe on Friday, May 29, 2020. To keep customers and employees healthy, the retailer provides hand sanitizer, wipes down hats after a customer tries it on, and enforces social distancing within the store. Kemosabe reopened to the public on Saturday, May 16. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/business-monday-even-the-clothes-are-quarantined-in-aspen\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-1024x682.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1.jpg\"> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Wendy Kunkle wipes the inside of a hat with a Clorox wipe in Kemosabe on Friday, May 29, 2020. To keep customers and employees healthy, the retailer provides hand sanitizer, wipes down hats after a customer tries it on, and enforces social distancing within the store. Kemosabe reopened to the public on Saturday, May 16. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Safety guidelines for shoppers hang in the front door of Pitkin County Dry Goods in Aspen on Friday, May 29, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"-0.47606382978723\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9.5212765957447\">\n<p><strong>Safety guidelines for shoppers hang in the front door of Pitkin County Dry Goods in Aspen on Friday, May 29, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/business-monday-even-the-clothes-are-quarantined-in-aspen\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-1-1024x682.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-1.jpg\"> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/bizcover-atd-060120-1-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Safety guidelines for shoppers hang in the front door of Pitkin County Dry Goods in Aspen on Friday, May 29, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/business-monday-even-the-clothes-are-quarantined-in-aspen\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/business-monday-even-the-clothes-are-quarantined-in-aspen\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">The wide-sweeping tentacles of the coronavirus pandemic seemingly touch all aspects of everyday life, including dressing rooms in clothing stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ute Mountaineer in downtown specializes in products and gear for the outdoors, including clothing customers privately try on in its fitting rooms. When that happens, store employees \u2014 using Post-It notes \u2014 tag the clothing articles sampled by customers and quarantine them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Clothing that touches hard surfaces or contains certain hard materials is set aside for 72 hours. That\u2019s because the novel coronavirus can live as many as two to three days on hard surfaces depending on a variety of factors ranging from temperature to surface type.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Whatever the case, Ute Mountaineer store manager Dan Schreck said the shop takes extra precautions to ease consumer fears and play it safe. A good portion of the clothing it sells contains plastic and metal \u2014 which can be contaminated with the virus for as long as 72 hours, a <a id=\"N0x1676ea0N0x16c5e00:N0x1676ea0N0x151d038\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/03\/200320192755.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study from the New England Journal of Medicine found.<\/a><\/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\">Other clothing will be set aside for 24 hours after being steamed, Schreck said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIf people are trying on clothes, which we obviously encourage, we ask them not to pull 15 different things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For the clothes they do try on but don\u2019t buy, customers are asked to leave them in the dressing room for employees to collect, clean and set aside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With the pandemic has come consumer trepidation concerning the use of dressing rooms. CNBC, citing results of a survey by the retail predictive analytics company First Insight, reported May 11 that 65% of women polled said they would not feel safe sampling clothes in a dressing room. Fifty-four percent of the male respondents expressed similar reservations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pitkin County Dry Goods also steams its clothes that have been tried on and sets the articles aside for at least 24 hours, said Tyler Moore, who manages the men\u2019s side of the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s not required,\u201d Moore said. \u201cIt\u2019s just something we\u2019ve been doing so everyone feels safer and people have confidence in the dressing room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Clothing stores were allowed to open under Pitkin County\u2019s Phase 1 reopening May 9. In a public meeting days before Phase 1\u2019s implementation, the Pitkin County Board of Health said returning clothing is not allowed. Whether dressing rooms are used is at the retailer\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Kemo Sabe, the purveyor of Western wear in downtown Aspen, doesn\u2019t have a fitting room but it sells plenty of cowboy hats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIf people want to try on a hat, they do an alcohol swab on their foreheads,\u201d said Sam Purcell, the store\u2019s HR director. \u201cAnd if they don\u2019t want to, we will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Store employees stay busy sanitizing jewelry and other items, Purcell said. Hand sanitizer is placed at high-traffic work stations in the store, she said, and they follow a strict cleaning schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:rcarroll@aspentimes.com\">rcarroll@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/business-monday-even-the-clothes-are-quarantined-in-aspen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Kunkle wipes the inside of a hat with a Clorox wipe in Kemosabe on Friday, May 29, 2020. To keep customers and employees healthy, the retailer provides hand sanitizer, wipes down hats after a customer tries it on, and enforces social distancing within the store. Kemosabe reopened to the public on Saturday, May 16. 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