The wage hike won’t do much damage to national retailers, Fasano said. “If anybody thinks that raising the minimum wage in Connecticut is somehow going to hurt the profits at Target and Wal-mart, they’re sadly mistaken. Who’s going to get hurt is the ma-and-pa stores, the small restaurants, the places in your community that are trying to survive...that’s where there’s not room to absorb or perhaps even pass on the costs.”