Local businesses face the reality of new closures due to coronavirus

Even more shops and businesses began closing up on Monday as the Governor passed down a stay-at-home order.

Closed.

Malls have been ordered to close under governor brown's latest order.

The rogue valley mall's general manager says the safety of shoppers and employees is the top priority.

Last week, the rogue valley mall adjusted its operating hours because of the coronavirus.

There's not a lot left open in jacksonville.

Main street is made up of shops, bars, and a few restaurants.

The businesses in town are heavily dependant on the tourism industry.

Most of the shops fall under the retail category that was ordered to close today.

The owner of scheffel's toys was in today, but only to do some spring cleaning.

It wasn't open to the public.

"and until people are willing to self-sacrifice like us down in downtown jacksonville, and get smart about how to do this, then we're chasing our tails.

That makes me angry at how selfish those people can be."

(0:17) a lot of the restaurants in town are still open for take- out.

You can check a list of them on our website, kdrv.com.

Vandalism.

Someone smashed the glass in the front door.

The owner says who ever did it, did not go into the building.

"it just hurts the little guy like me, i'm just a small, little, independent business owner and its been painful enough to close and now to endure costs that are unexpected on top of that, it hurts, it's not good."

There's a possibility we'll see a lot more vandalism cases like this.

There was a recent study of one million laid-off norwegians over 15 years.

It showed in the first year after losing work, out-of-work people commit 60-percent more property crimes.

That's things like theft, shoplifting, burglary, and vandalism.

The researchers attributed the rise in crime to a combinations of too much free time and psychological stressors like