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The Ground Floor: Restructuring Retail In The Pandemic

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The retail business was already showing considerable signs of stress even when the economy was good.

The big online shopping sites can deliver goods to your door in a day or two, with little effort from you. That put enormous pressure on local brick-and-mortar retailers, and then the stay-home orders shut them all down.

They are now able to reopen, but with many restrictions and guidelines. In a special edition of our business segment, The Ground Floor, we visit with retail operators about how they've changed to accommodate the new reality.

Nancy Bestor runs Travel Essentials in Ashland; Pam Hammond is from the Paddington Station stores, also in Ashland; Jami Ronda runs Rogue City Comics in Medford; and Mark and Krissy Millner own Terra Firma in Jacksonville.

We get the lowdown on what they've done to bring shoppers back... and keep them safe.

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