Minnesota businesses prepare to reopen

It's a part of the new "Stay Safe MN" order.

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Thousand 651./// in just hours ... minnesota retails stores and other main street businesses will reopen for the first time in weeks.

It's all a part of governor tim walz's new 'stay safe ?n' order that takes effect tomorrow.

Kimt news three's maleeha kamal spoke with one local business owner to see how she's preparing for the big day.xxx look: the doors here at danielle's consignment boutique are less than 24 hour away from open up to the public.

Nats: vacuming preparations are under way.

Nats: of drilling hand sanitizers station to the wall.

Nats: we are putting 5 hand sanitizer stations on the wall throughout the store.

Sanitation is a top priority for owner danielle david.

"i've hung plexiglass, i've wipe down all the fixtures.

I have all my hospital grade disinfectants that i clean the store with" her boutique has been closed since mid march... and like many business owners she had to come up with a plan quickly.

"it was really scary at first because we were scared about the virus and also scared about this is my income what what am i going to do for money am i going to make any money but i do a lot of online selling so i ended up just swinging into that."

She's ready to get back to business... with necessary changes.

She's been closely monitoring state guidelines... which include maintaining six feet of social distancing between workers and customers having proper handwashing practice?

And operating at 5?percent capacity.*nat?

It's not so much the sales she's looking forward to?

But all the familiar faces.

"the human contact is huge for everybody.

I know people miss coming here they might even miss me."

Look live: danielle tells me that she will be offering private shopping to those who have a compromised immune system.

In rochester maleeha kamal kimt news 3./// "to start putting out webinars and what we found this was the best way for us to get the most information out quickly.

We're just trying to highlight some of the important aspects to those businesses that are looking to reopen on monday and what the legal requirements are for them."

Those webinars are available to the public on the rochester chamber's website.

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