Checklist: Reopening Your Retail Store After the Coronavirus Shutdown

After having to close your retail store as a result of COVID-19 related restrictions, you’re probably looking forward to reopening your doors. States are lifting restrictions on business operations, so you’ll need to create a detailed plan for how you’ll reopen your store while still protecting the health of your customers and your employees.  
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Use this checklist from SCORE to help you reopen your retail store while keeping yourself, employees and customers safe.

This checklist will help you determine what your customers expect when your store reopens, talk to your employees about reopening, and put supply chains in place to keep your store running smoothly after reopening.

Whether or not to reopen your retail store as soon as COVID-19 closures for retailers are lifted is a choice that only you can make. Take federal, state and local health authority guidelines, as well as your store’s finances, into account when making your decision.

SCORE’s retail reopening checklist will help ensure you take all the relevant factors into account to develop a well-thought-out plan, and includes resources to help you.

Visual Media is here to help you in your efforts. From helping you keep your Google My Business listing up to date with current information, to updating your website with important safety information and news of re-openings to creating signage or sending emails, posts to social media and more. Contact us today and let us help you get back on your feet.

Download the Store Reopening Checklist