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Question of the Day By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 14, 2021
Some businesses from bike shops to furniture stores to fitness companies have gotten an unexpected boost amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has shuttered or slowed many enterprises across the country.
Wolf Herrera-Davila, a mechanic at Germantown Cycles Bicycle Shop in Maryland, described the past year as “absolutely crazy,” with bikes being sold out and the shop seeing a major boom in demand for repair services. At one point the shop had to stop taking service orders because the staff couldn’t handle the volume of requests, he said.