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gasholeon Dec 12, 2020 12:00pm
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RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust Chief Executive Officer Ed Sonshine said in a Dec. 1 television interview that shopping centres owned by the company just outside the lockdown zones are extremely busy. Unless youre going to start putting a literal physical fence around the areas that are under lockdown, Im not sure how much it accomplishes. People that want to go out and shop theyre going to find a place to shop, he said. The Toronto lockdown didnt stop 25-year-old Adam from leaving the city to do his holiday shopping making trips most often to Orangeville, a town northwest of Toronto where he was raised. He has also travelled as far as Woodstock and London, Ont. He says it comes down to feeling safer shopping outside of a virus hotspot, especially since his stepmother is considered high risk because of her asthma. The population density is way lower out there, he said in a phone interview. Your interactivity with other people is very low. Im not saying Im less cautious, but theres less stress about touching things like a shopping cart. Line-ups are shorter, everything is a lot quicker, he added