Small businesses have had a hard time navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, but that's not the case for one metro grocery store.La Favorita has been operating on the east side of Des Moines for 15 years, but a good amount of its business was coming from another part of town, and that sparked this idea to expand.On Saturday, the family-owned Mexican grocery store cut the ribbon and danced in celebration as they just opened their second location on Army Post Road.It was a long road for the Ramirez family. They bought the building three years ago and started the renovation just before the pandemic hit. Their first location near the State Capitol has been popular for years, but they say many of their customers come from the south side and they wanted to give them a closer option."We've been blessed. We've been real blessed. That's why we came to the south side, because a lot of our customers told us to come down here to the south, so that's when we decided to get this building and COVID came in and-- yeah we've been really blessed," said store owner Hugo Ramirez.The new store is on Army Post Road near the intersection with Southeast Third Street.