As a barometer of Covid19 damage to the local economy Yelp, the well-known crowd-sourced local business review site, says that nearly 800 small businesses with a presence on Yelp's website have permanently closed their doors in metro Detroit since March based on the businesses on its site that have indicated closure. Note these are just the businesses listed on Yelp.

"While the company's findings focus only on the population of local businesses that use Yelp, the data offers an early glimpse at the coronavirus' permanent impact on small businesses

"A total of 1,500 metro Detroit businesses that are on Yelp closed their doors either on a temporary or permanent basis between March 1 to July 10, according to the company. More than half of those businesses will never reopen their doors, indicated by the owner marking the business “permanently closed” on Yelp."