For more than 20 years, Troi Ann Michael and her niece, Annette Kruse, have scoured sales papers, mapped out route strategies from store to store and shopped until they literally dropped on Black Friday.

The Reeds community residents know this year will be like no other Black Friday escapade, however, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The shopping wonder twins, who are now a trio joined by Michael's youngest sister, Sarah Ratliff, will have to consider wearing masks for hours, keeping a social distance from other shoppers anxiously trying to grab the same deals and using hand sanitizer more times than they care to think about.