LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An entrepreneurial Nebraska couple hope customers will grow comfortable buying from a remotely controlled retail store that sells pots and flowers.

Clark Plihal told the Lincoln Journal Star (http://bit.ly/ROL9Z3 ) that he and his wife, Kelli, have had difficulty finding seasonal help to sell their Bump Up Pots. They are flowers already planted in a removable-bottom pot so the flowers can be transferred to a larger pot or planted in the ground.

So the Plihals set up a test store on a vacant lot in downtown Crete. At the front of the store is a wooden console with a large computer screen. Their goal is to run the store remotely from their headquarters store in Shelton. Two Skype accounts let staffers in Shelton interact with customers in the Crete store.