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0000017d-2122-dd26-adfd-e56710b50000The New Classroom is a special reporting series, supported by The Walton Family Foundation, exploring the struggles, changes and innovations in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find reports in this series listed below.

Pandemic Changes Back-to-School Shopping Tradition

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A July commercial for Walmart shows a student returning to school in a face mask.

The pandemic has changed nearly everything, including back-to-school shopping for students, parents and teachers, so stores like Walmart are trying to find new ways to reach customers to provide items that weren't essential before, but are now.

Daniel Caruth is KUAF's Morning Edition host and reporter for Ozarks at Large.
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