Pundits are already speculating about the post-coronavirus culture and economy. Among the lasting, potential changes are more diversified supply chains, the mainstreaming of online education, more companies embracing work from home, stricter hygiene rules for restaurants and hotels (that survive) and other public places. And beyond all that, a great deal more online shopping.
Seismic shopping shift in the works?
Unlike any other single event in our lives perhaps, the coronavirus and related economic fallout have the potential to massively shift U.S. consumer buying patterns. For the several years before the virus, we were seeing store closures and retail bankruptcies — the so-called retail apocalypse. That will be exacerbated and accelerated by the coronavirus and impending recession.
