Leave it to a pandemic to swiftly make ideas into reality. Retailers have been envisioning a future where online ordering is the new norm – now, so many people are doing it they can’t keep up. Many stores were just beginning to scale back their 24-hour operations – now, most of them have. And some shoppers have asked for special shopping accommodations for seniors.  Here’s the entire article from Coupons in the News.  I read this yesterday – and also saw the times and ain’t no groceries worth getting up and dressed at that hour!

The dawn of a new week brings with it new changes to our daily life. Depending on where you live, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted businesses ranging from movie theaters to bars, health clubs and sit-down restaurants to shut their doors for the foreseeable future – and if they’re not all closed near you yet, they might be soon.

So could grocery stores be next? Could it be that all that panic buying that everyone’s been doing was justified?  Here’s the Coupons in the News article; I’m glad that stores won’t be allowing returns on this stuff ’cause I had nightmares thinking of all those trunks of food coming back to Jewel.