Baltimore County’s small retailers urge customers to shop in person amid online competition, pandemic

“Rewinding back to the summer months when there was a differentiation between essential and nonessential [businesses], you had retailers considered nonessential that were shut down for almost two and a half to three months,” she said. “Fast forward to now, most sectors in retail [see] some of their largest sales for the entire year, even sales that sustain them for the entire year, happening now.”