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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With Mayor Lenny Curry's executive order mandating Duval County residents to stay home starting Friday due to the COVID-19 pandemic, those in the area may ask 'what does that mean?' Does it mean that you can't go out for groceries or keep a scheduled doctor's visit? If I'm a business owner of a small hardware store, is my business considered essential?
The good news is that many businesses that are currently open — the Walmarts and Publixes and Home Depots — are considered essential and remain open, albeit, with their already altered operating hours.
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For decades, a handful of brands dominated consumer retail in the United States. Whether Kodak in cameras or Gillette in razors, the top brands in more than 10 categories were unchanged from 1923 to 1983.
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Coronavirus Business Tracker: How The Private Sector Is Fighting The COVID-19 Pandemic
Businesses around the world are shifting into overdrive to help battle the coronavirus, providing everything from rubber gloves and ventilators to diagnostic tools and, hopefully soon, vaccines. While the pandemic continues to wreak havoc, large corporations and small businesses are developing creative solutions to halt the spread of the virus.
Forbes will continue to update this list of private companies and how they are stepping up to fight the COVID-19 pandemic:
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Then, halfway through the meeting on Tuesday morning, members heard a man's voice shouting misogynistic and anti-Semitic slurs, along with crass references to drinking.
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Meeting organizers quickly muted the intruder and removed them — but by then the meeting had been derailed and more than half of the participants had left.
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Before we answer that question, consider this. Real estate and how much rent you pay has always been a function of location, location, location. The location typically determines among other things, how much visibility you get for your business, access to customers and foot traffic among other things.
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