For high-touch retailers like record shops and bookstores, the pandemic has demanded reducing and in some cases eliminating a key part of their businesses: browsing. Many of the city's retailers have reopened, but some have yet to do so because of the health risks inherent in having customers touching products in a confined space. Store manager Kelly Dyer told CBC Edmonton's Radio Active recently that reopening has been "physically impossible" for the small store. Quarantining itemsTable Top Cafe owner Brian Flowers, who has reopened one of his two board game cafe locations, looked to public libraries for guidance on handling shared items that could not be easily sanitized. "That's part of the fun of being a business owner," he said.

Source: CBC News September 13, 2020 13:30 UTC