Hawaii's grim economic outlook

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Maui ranked #2 in the nation facing disruption from COVID-19

If there's a silver lining, it's that some cities could weather the coronavirus recession better than others — including already-battered Rust Belt cities, as well as agricultural communities, they added. Tech-focused university towns like Provo, Utah, and San Jose, California, may also be more insulated. Even so, it's unlikely that any city will emerge unscathed from a recession.

Below are the top 15 cities facing economic disruption, ranked by their share of jobs in the most at-risk industries:

Midland, Texas: 42.5%
Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, Hawaii: 40.4%

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/recession-u...ronavirus/

“If this were a terrorist threat, we would have declared war on whatever group was responsible for it back in January.” - Oona Hathaway

[EightFingers]

Las Vegas was #4 on the list, so Hawaii gets hit twice!

Puna: Our roosters crow first

[randomq]

The Big Island needs to make a major push for retirement communities with advanced medical care. Retirees bring their savings and steady retirement income. They would create jobs in construction, food, entertainment, housekeeping, elder care, and medicine. These are things we could all benefit from, particularly having more medical professionals on island.

[kalakoa]

retirement communities with advanced medical care

Such as the ones proposed for Kau, which can never be developed due to "fierce local opposition" and publicly-funded conservation efforts?

[ironyak]

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...ssessment/
"Speakers painted a bleak picture Monday of Hawaii’s near-term economic future during a teleconference conducted by the state House Select Committee on COVID-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness.

Lauren Zirbel, executive director of the Hawaii Food Industry Association, told committee members that food sales at restaurants that remain open continue to drop — even though trips for food, whether to the supermarket or to restaurants offering drive-through or takeout meals — are allowable under the state’s stay-at-home order, which is in effect through April.

“Takeout is not even coming close to making up for the losses in dine-in, and hotels and restaurants have closed,” Zirbel said. “And food service options in grocery stores are down as much as 60% in some areas.”

Because of the decline, “layoffs are occurring on the supply-side of the food chain as well as on the food-service side. And many of these layoffs started to occur prior to the passage of the CARES Act,” she said.

Zirbel said a second wave of negative economic impacts is starting to take effect as Hawaii’s food industry is “seeing sales slow down on most items except staple items.”

“We’re not seeing the increases the previous two weeks when people were trying to stock up,” she said, referring to the initial wave of panic buying at the beginning of the pandemic, when people cleared store shelves of items including canned foods, bottled water and toilet paper.

“We’ve had a lot of (convenience) store closures, especially in shopping malls and tourist areas. … And we’re seeing the impact of layoffs showing up in our food industry data … as people are buying smaller quantities of lower-value items.

“This trend suggests that some people are running out of money to purchase food.”

more at link

[terracore]

quote:

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Originally posted by terracore

Just tried renewing my truck registration (with expired safety) on web site.

No dice.

ETA: "Not all counties allow online renewals after your registration submission deadline. "

ETA2: "Special Note: Currently the renewal kiosks and online application will not accept expired safety inspections. We are working on removing the safety inspection requirement. Please check back to this website for further updates." (From https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/departments...-licensing )

Registration Renewals

There are alternative ways to renew your vehicle registration without coming into our office:

Mail in your renewal (we will renew your vehicle with an expired safety):
101 Pauahi Street, Suite 5

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Registrations with expired safeties can now be renewed online. I don't know about the kiosks.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

“This trend suggests that some people are running out of money to purchase food.”

That’s certainly one explanation.
Another might be that they’re staying home and eating the food they bought weeks ago? So at the moment they’re not buying more?