COVID threw a twist into everyone’s lives. The nation-wide lockdown required a lot of small businesses to close their doors for a couple of months, and for some, permanently. The Candle Mercantile had to shut down their store, along with many others at the middle of March until the end of May. With TCM having just opened in June of 2019, so just a short eight months later, they were not prepared to close down. During this time, the owners actually had to lay off all of their employees, but were fortunate enough to hire them all back on when doors reopened. Pre COVID times at TCM were different than…