Reopening Whiplash Wreaks Havoc on California Small Businesses

  • Plans shift within days or get scrapped while Covid-19 rages
  • Salons among operations struggling with ‘constant uncertainty’
Kristy NalepovicPhotographer: Cayce Clifford for Bloomberg for Bloomberg
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The shifting rules of running a business in California these days are enough to give anyone whiplash.

Tracey Cunningham’s Beverly Hills salon, Mèche, was open for a little more than two weeks before a surge in Covid-19 cases forced it to close -- for a second time.