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title: "Franchise Times: Brick & Mortar Franchises Find Ways to Survive the Current Situation"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/9a284e86-aa36-43f4-8053-24b0b379a601
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-brick-mortar-franchises-find-ways-to-survive-the-current-situation-2713199
category: "Franchise Industry"
industry: "Franchise Industry"
published: 2020-05-30T04:23:10.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:09:31.590Z
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# Franchise Times: Brick & Mortar Franchises Find Ways to Survive the Current Situation

**TL;DR:** Brick and mortar franchises like Batteries Plus have found ways to survive the current situation by adapting to changes and offering essential services. Batteries Plus has remained open throughout the COVID-19 crisis, supplying hospitals, restaurants, and grocery stores with life-saving batteries and power.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2020-05-30. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-brick-mortar-franchises-find-ways-to-survive-the-current-situation-2713199).*

## Story

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.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Franchise Industry (sector)
- Franchise Times (publication)
- Walmart (company)
- Batteries Plus (company)
- Scott Williams (person)
- covid-19 crisis (topic)
- essential services (topic)
- brick and mortar (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-brick-mortar-franchises-find-ways-to-survive-the-current-situation-2713199). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/9a284e86-aa36-43f4-8053-24b0b379a601).