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In final holiday stretch, Vermont businesses have new ways to reach customers © Provided by WPTZ Plattsburgh-Burlington With just over a week to go until Christmas, many shipping deadlines for online orders are here, or will be very soon. That has brick-and-mortar retailers and indie merchants hoping shoppers will remember them for in-person shopping while wearing masks and sanitizing their hands, among other COVID-19 prevention measures. Some small businesses in Vermont also have new ways of reaching customers. This is huge, florist Meredith Clayton said of a winter market she took part in last week in downtown Burlington. Clayton said her business, Clayton Floral, lost sales to the pandemic, in the form of bouquets and arrangements for weddings and orders from hotels and restaurants.

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