After nearly three months of silence, “non essential businesses” such as barber shops, nail salons and retail stores opened with anxious customers returning to patronize service establishments around the County.

Most of the mainstream retailers, such as chain department stores, enjoyed opening with scores of patrons waiting behind pandemic recovery velvet ropes for half price sales events as shoppers capitalized on deals that were designed to clean out old stock.

Retail chains, who took a beating in the second quarter, are pressed to move their second quarter inventory for spring and summer months are offering deals for many of those same customers, who now find themselves pressing a reset button on how things are being done.

At Kettering Plaza in Largo, major department stores such as Ross reopened with people looking to take advantage of clearance sales as retailers looked to clear out stock that was cluttering space as they were waiting for deliveries for summer and fall merchandise, which hadn’t been on shelves since stores were closed after stay at home social distance measures were implemented in late March.

Lake Arbor Dental and Splash Nail Boutique have survived for more than a decade with those business practices which sustained them through the time when they were deemed non-essential services.