This small Missouri city could cash in on the eclipse. It's trying hard not to.
Businesses in Perryville, Missouri, 80 miles south of St. Louis, are vowing not to price-gouge visitors, hoping they’ll return after the big event is over.
It will take more than the moon blocking out the face of the sun for Emily Gegg and Amanda Schwent to charge more for moonsicles.
The best friends and co-owners of Luna’s Shaved Ice have stockpiled 25,000 of their frozen fruit pops to sell for $3 apiece to visitors descending on Perryville, Missouri, to watch Monday’s total solar eclipse.
“We didn’t even discuss raising the price for the eclipse weekend,” said Gegg.
“That wouldn’t be right,” Schwent added.
Luna’s Shaved Ice in Perryville, Mo., isn’t raising prices on its frozen treats during the total solar eclipse.Whitten Sabbatini for NBC NewsPerryville, about 80 miles south of St. Louis, is in the path of totality stretching from Texas to Maine, where the shadow of the moon will fully obscure the sun for several minutes.
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