Social distancing is improving your shopping experience

Mobile apps are increasingly being used in stores to place orders, get questions answered via chat and pay. — Photo Mix/Pixabay

Before Covid-19, visitors to Jared The Galleria of Jewelry browsed glass cases of engagement rings and diamond earrings and paid at a pin pad. But now this routine –culminating in the furious printing of a receipt – has been turned upside down.

And it’s likely to stay that way.