The Eye of the Storm: Another COVID Check-In with Specialty Cheese Retail

Cutting the Curd

Episode 427 Aired: Tuesday, July 28th 2020

The Eye of the Storm: Another COVID Check-In with Specialty Cheese Retail

We continue our pandemic-focused series of interviews with industry professionals about selling cheese in the time of COVID. Here we're joined by Laura Logos Downey of Fairfield Cheese Shop to hear about retail landscape now that we're through the first wave of infections in the Northeast. And we look forward to what the Fall may bring, and what actions Laura is taking to prepare.

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