Lia Di Angelo, who owns a florist shop on Post Avenue in Westbury, starts preparing for the busy holiday season in November. She places orders for flowers to create holiday wreaths and poinsettias and decides how many additional staff to hire.

Di Angelo, 53, typically hires about 20 temporary staff to help her design arrangements and deliver orders to customers of her 13-year-old store, Westbury Floral Designs. But this year, she said, she’s planning to hire “three to four people less than last year since the business is down.”

“I may bring it down a notch and [hire] six delivery drivers instead of seven, and maybe 11 shop employees instead of 13,” she said.

The holiday season is when Di Angelo usually doubles her monthly revenue, but she said customer sales have been down by about 15%

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