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Fresh Choice grocery store butcher stocks the shelves daily with fresh meat.
Four essential businesses

cope amidst pandemic

By Carolyn Marnon Clorox or Lysol wipes in stock, Lydia
Four Wayne businesses shared says everything else has been suc-
how they have continued to serve the cessfully stocked throughout the
community during the Michigan Stay pandemic. She says there were only
Home, Stay Safe order. a few days when they didn’t have toi-
Fresh Choice is the largest gro- let paper, the holy grail of shoppers
cery store in the City of Wayne. Man- everywhere. She says they now have
ager Lydia Pattah says the store has “tons of it.” The hardest to get item
operated continuously during store has been yeast, “which is a very odd
hours since the pandemic started. thing since everyone started baking
She says they are “staying safe, tak- their own bread. It’s finally started to
ing more precautions than we nor- come in,” said Lydia She also shared
mally do, extra sanitation, wearing that the top selling breads, like white
gloves all the time, wearing masks all and wheat, along with hamburger
the time, pretty much keeping the and hot dog buns have been easy to
customer safe and the employees get, but the specialty breads have not
healthy.” been as easy to stock.
Fresh Choice put up plastic bar- Northside Hardware, the long-
riers at the checkout counters and time institution of tools and paint in
taped the front end of the store to Wayne and the favorite hardware
keep people the recommended social destination of many, has continued
distance of 6 feet apart.
Although they do not yet have See Pandemic, page 10

4 · June 2020 · The Wayne Dispatch