From bookstores to toy stores, a number of retailers will welcome in-person customers for the first time in two months.

“The pressure with the conditions we are working under right now is exhausting,” said one store owner.

One of the city's first boutique pet shops is saying goodbye to customers starting this weekend, with a 20% off sale.

The boutique clothing store is downsizing to one location, and closing its sister men's store as well.

Shelter-in-place restrictions, coupled with a tough brick-and-mortar retail environment, led early e-commerce pioneer Nancy Boy to close its longtime Hayes Valley storefront.

With its usual schedule of weddings and parties postponed, event florist Ash + Oak has been decorating closed small businesses for free instead.

"Hayes Valley has changed so much," said owner Cindy Spade, with large corporations and ecommerce startups commanding rents small shops can't pay.

Despite remaining open as essential businesses, the city's repair shops are hurting.

With no federal relief funds in sight, the Castro's gay bars and restaurants are now staring down the loss of one of their biggest weekends of the year.

Author events and kids' storytimes are critical to the health of local bookstores — and the resulting revenue isn't easily replicated on Zoom.

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"The biggest support is buying something," one store owner said.