For central PA’s small retail businesses, coronavirus-induced push to online sales may stick

When Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all non-life sustaining businesses to shut their doors, thousands of small businesses across the state had to figure out how to change their operations practically overnight.

For some in central Pennsylvania, the sudden inability to sell their wares from their physical storefronts provided the time — and necessity — to get their online operations up and going. While many already had websites for their stores, reformatting them to be able to accept online sales wasn’t as easy as pressing a button.

“In order to succeed in this new environment, you have to be open to different approaches and different ways of changing your model slightly, and there’s nothing wrong with that,” said Jane Yorty, owner of Carriage House Style, a boutique shop in Quentin, Lebanon County.

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