Saturday, April 25, 2020

Pandemic life

So what is everyone buying while they're stuck at home?

Toilet paper - 123% increase
Amazon - 23% increase
Freezers - 500% increase in 10 households have purchased one
Firearms - 80% increase. Desperate times... 
Subway - 40% to 80% decline
Frozen pizza - 92% increase. Gotta feed those teenagers! 
Frozen cookie dough - 454% increase. This one surprised me a little
Starbucks - 70% decline
Television and streaming services - 20% increase. Netflix alone added over 13 million new subscribers in the last couple months!
Hand sanitizer - 470% increase 
Airline tickets - 96% decline. WOW!
Fitness equipment - 535% increase. That many people go to a gym? 
Beer - 42% increase. LOL 
Puzzles - 370% increase. They're hard to find on Amazon, along with paint by numbers. 
Gasoline - 30% decline. I thought this would be more.
Video games - 65% increase. 
Walmart - 20% 
increase. I bet Target's numbers are right up there as well
McDonald's - 13.4% decline
Milk - 47.5% increase. Yet dairy farmers are still dumping milk!  

How about you? At the grocery store, I feel like we’re buying more meat but less produce. That’s odd. But we aren’t hoarding tp or paper towels. It’s getting harder though, to be stuck at home. I miss Hobby Lobby and Kohls and eating out. Last Friday, we had dinner out, courtesy of Penn Station. They have curbside pick up. It was nice. And I loved that when I picked it up, they brought it out to my car and said, "thank you for supporting us!"  I think my fella gets his fix because Lowes and Menards are still open. He's been remodeling our bathroom. And, we've gone for 'a drive' a couple times. Not the same. 

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