The Winter in Aspen & Snowmass Guide to Shopping Local
on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) Operating a retail store in a mountain resort town such as Aspen is hard enough with offseasons to contend with, plus elevated rents. Throw in a pandemic and it adds a whole other level of complexity to business. Luckily the locally owned shops in Aspen, peppered among recognizable big-name brands on storefronts, are a resilient bunch and spent the summer and fall months adjusting to new rules and restrictions put in place due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. “What I would say about the summer and fall was that it was unexpectedly...