Consumer Discretionary Stocks' Latest Challenge: Should Stores Require Masks?

It has already been a disastrous year for consumer-facing stocks.

Nonessential retailers -- the ones that sell discretionary items like apparel -- were forced to close their stores in March when the pandemic first started. Then, just as some of them were starting to reopen, they were vandalized by looters in a number of cities after George Floyd's killing.

Now, as retailers, restaurants, entertainment, and travel companies are trying to get customers back in the door, they're faced with a fraught question: whether to make customers wear masks or not.

Source Fool.com