Franchise Times: Brick & Mortar Franchises Find Ways to Survive the Current Situation

As an essential business, franchise locations across the country have remained open in order to supply hospitals, restaurants, grocery stores and more with the life-saving batteries and power they need to keep running.

According to Franchise Times , many different brick and mortar franchise businesses were looking for ways to remain open throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Batteries Plus was prepared long before the pandemic hit; the only adjustments they needed to make were making sure customers, both community members and hospitals/businesses, were able to order products virtually.

“We sell hospital batteries in Michigan; we sell forklift batteries for folks who do distribution for Walmart. We sell hearing aid batteries,” said Scott Williams, CEO in an interview with Franchise Times. “We have virtually every store open. We are on mostly full hours; in a couple of cases folks have streamlined it, but we’ve also needed to be there for our commercial customers.”