"There are confusing policies all over the place. The states are trying to do their best. But the states don't necessarily have any better answers than anybody else. This is all new territory. It's all a shot in the dark, or a best educated guess about what's going to work and what's the most responsible way forward."

National Retail Federation’s David French, a senior vice president of government relations, in a recent interview with Retail Dive for its report, “As states grapple with reopening, retail industry thinks it has a ‘blueprint.’”