A Seattle Apothecary Owner Does Her Own Deliveries

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The One Year, One Neighborhood series follows small businesses in the Pike/Pine corridor in Seattle, the first coronavirus hot spot in the U.S., to get a sense of what cities will look like as they reopen.

Karyn Schwartz is an herbalist who has lived and worked in Seattle’s Capitol Hill since the late 1980s. Even as brick-and-mortar stores have struggled across the U.S., her small shop, SugarPill, has thrived. It sells herbal teas, tinctures, and natural body care products. But, mostly, it’s a front for Schwartz to help people—something she says she can’t do online. “The very thing that has allowed us to survive as a store for all these years is the very thing we can’t do right now,” she says. “I built this business to be here in person and have that human connection.”

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