Pandemic Still Affecting Small Town Businesses Across North Central Florida – WUFT News
If the government shuts businesses down again because of the pandemic, Mary Moyer might just give up. She’s tired of struggling, she said. Moyer, 62, has owned the only flower shop in High Springs for 15 years and worked there for 20. Thompson’s Flowers barely survived the Great Recession in 2008, and now the pandemic could cost it nearly 60 percent of its yearly revenue, the florist said. “It was dead quiet – except for a few funerals I had,” she said of when COVID-19 began wreaking havoc on the economy. “We sat around here, just my husband and I, doing nothing.” With most p...
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