businesses reopen monday

car dealerships and photographys

Pleas...kentucky's business sector is slowly reopening today.

Abc 36's christy bollinger spoke with a used car dealership and a local photographer about what today means for them.

### usually, people dread mondays....not this one.

For photographer rebecca flanery monday meant being able to do her first photo session in months.

"of course it'll be a little different with social distancing i have my homemade face mask to wear and we're gonna be staying further away but we have zoom lenses and things to combat that."

Flanery had to file for unemployment... when all her wedding sessions started getting cancelled.

" but now i'm trying to jump back into it get off that unemployment so that the people who really need it so that they can get those funds."

Unlike flannery, rayyan auto sales off winchester road in lexington could do some business while shutdown.

"what was happening was people were getting these stimulus checks and there weren't a lot of places to spend them except for grocery stores and your basic essential needs so we sold quite a few cars last month but we did it by appointment."

So even though the family-owned dealership is open to the public again...it's actually worried about losing sales because others are now open too.

"we can tell it's slowed down here the last couple of weeks."

As with many businesses, there are also new rules to follow here if you want to buy a car.

Only one customer in at a time...solo test drives...and all employees must wear masks...including one who was able to come back from furlough monday.

They're ready...now, rayyan and flannery wait to see if customers return.

"we want to survive as a business and we definitely want to be compassionate towards everybody and just kind of play it safe.

I'm there for everybody to do things the best that i can."

Christy bollinger, abc 36 news.

Also reopening today... churchill