Here's a look at online shopping:
E-commerce spiked during the pandemic but then subsided until mid-2022. Since then it's been growing again. It looks like the pandemic gave e-commerce a permanent 2% bump relative to its long-term growth rate.
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Nobody wants to wander around in the miasma of what other people take for hygiene.
Makes a lot of sense! Recall that when workplaces and meetings had to zoom, everyone discovered that this could be a very convenient, cost effective way to get together? And with online shopping, one could shop at their own speed, compare between different vendors, read customer reviews (which might even have been true...), and check with ratings organzations ... and then, have the merch delivered to one's very doorstop?
One hopes that this will mean nobody has to be crushed to death at the Walmart entry portal anymore.
Since we were talking about shoplifting my first thought on this was “well, I guess that’s one way to resolve shoplifting”. But then I thought about all the package theft that I see reported on NextDoor. Checked Google and found this:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/25/porch-piracy-package-thefts-doorstep-delivery
I suppose it’s more personal because they are stealing from you, and not a store. Looks like a lot of states are trying to resolve it by making it a felony. I don’t really see that as helpful in that the way to stop crime is to catch criminals not increase penalties with no more danger of capture. Of course, something like that is really difficult to police.
I almost commented about something like this on the post about shoplifting. Reported shoplifting incidents per 100K people is a stupid way of tracking things because a) many more purchases are online these days and b) the amount of stuff taken per incident has gone up.