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re: After COVID is over, what things that were normal before will not come back?
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:10 am to fallguy_1978
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:10 am to fallguy_1978
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You don't find it to be expensive?
Aren't all things that add convenience?
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:10 am to stout
It will never end
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:11 am to stout
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Because theatres were going away before the pandemic. That's the point but AMC did open this week.
But they were part of normal life pre-COVID and likely will not be normal after, like your OP asks.
You even think so yourself 
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:12 am to fallguy_1978
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You don't find it to be expensive?
I do Instacart’s monthly subscription at $9.99. No delivery fee over $35 (which is super easy for me as I order my groceries for the week). Tip is just a few bucks.
It’s well worth it to not have to step foot into a grocery store.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:12 am to TheWiz
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Aren't all things that add convenience?
Walmart pickup isn't any more expensive than going in the store. Their delivery is pretty cheap too.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:12 am to LNCHBOX
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But they were part of normal life pre-COVID and likely will not be normal after, like your OP asks. You even think so yourself
I think the point is that they will go back to normal, which is/was a slowly dying company/model
COVID just my have expediated it a bit
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:13 am to fallguy_1978
Target does free delivery promotions (from the local store) all the time
My wife makes good use of those
My wife makes good use of those
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 9:14 am
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:13 am to kingbob
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Movie theaters
our family has been in quarantine (not positive, just primary exposure) for two weeks and we just got the kids out of the house for the first time last night and went to Cinemark to see Remember the Titans. we were the only car in the parking lot. just freaking depressing. you still can't replace an all American like Gary Bertier.
We ate out beforehand and the food people got all excited about us buying popcorn when we went by. felt like an a-hole walking past them.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:13 am to Salmon
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I think the point is that they will go back to normal, which is/was a slowly dying company/model
COVID just my have expediated it a bit
Then a lot of things mentioned in the thread will need to not be counted
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:14 am to LNCHBOX
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Then a lot of things mentioned in the thread will need to not be counted
oh absolutely
half of kingbob's list fit that description
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:15 am to Colonel Angus
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Handshakes.
I never stopped. That’s how men greet each other. Stop fearing germs.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:15 am to Salmon
Has anyone mentioned cruises yet? Because those aren't going to be normal for a while.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:15 am to BluegrassBelle
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I do Instacart’s monthly subscription at $9.99. No delivery fee over $35 (which is super easy for me as I order my groceries for the week). Tip is just a few bucks.
It’s well worth it to not have to step foot into a grocery store.
Right but the prices for the stores around here that use it are easily 30+% more expensive. I'm not adding hundreds of dollars a month to my grocery bill when I can pay Walmart prices for the same items and still not have to go into the store.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:16 am to fallguy_1978
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Walmart pickup isn't any more expensive than going in the store. Their delivery is pretty cheap too.
We mostly use Rouses for produce and deli meat. We have found that the pickers are actual Rouses employees so they aim to represent the store well.
Do you get similar items from Walmart? I'm not above trying it. Hell, we never shopped Rouses before this and exclusively shopped Walmart and Costco to save money.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:17 am to fallguy_1978
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Right but the prices for the stores around here that use it are easily 30+% more expensive. I'm not adding hundreds of dollars a month to my grocery bill when I can pay Walmart prices for the same items and still not have to go into the store.
I don’t shop at Walmart here unless I have to. The quality of the ones here are pretty significantly below Target, Kroger, Aldis, and Costco (all stores in the Instacart app).
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:19 am to Salmon
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I think the point is that they will go back to normal, which is/was a slowly dying company/model
COVID just my have expediated it a bit
Exactly. It's not hard to understand.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:19 am to kingbob
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Movie theaters
Yeah they were dying before COVID. I think this is the final nail for the traditional pack everyone as much as possible.
I think some theaters will exist as a smaller niche type product.
Hell half our theaters have already closed
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:20 am to TheWiz
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Do you get similar items from Walmart? I'm not above trying it. Hell, we never shopped Rouses before this and exclusively shopped Walmart and Costco to save money.
We generally buy meat and produce at Costco or Rouses a few times per month but we get everything else from the Walmart pickup. It would probably cost us $200-300 more per month to get everything at Albertsons or Rouses.
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 9:21 am
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:21 am to stout
Judging by the overall tone of this thread, where people indicate their willingness to give up basic features of life prior to COVID due to their unwillingness to face risks that were considered minor or nonexistent prior to COVID, I would say overall normalcy will not come back for a long time.
We rewired a basic feature of how we view fellow humans in the span of a few months, subjecting all preexisting norms of interaction to an overarching paradigm of seeing each other as potential virus hosts. This was in a time when we also elevated racial and political scapegoating to levels not seen in our lifetimes.
2020 was a time of sowing the wind, and I think the whirlwind is coming.
You can disagree with the apocalyptic view of the result of all of this (what I would call a mass exercise in dehumanization), but I don't see how a thinking person can fail to see that this change in how people see each other is very important and possibly catastrophic.
We rewired a basic feature of how we view fellow humans in the span of a few months, subjecting all preexisting norms of interaction to an overarching paradigm of seeing each other as potential virus hosts. This was in a time when we also elevated racial and political scapegoating to levels not seen in our lifetimes.
2020 was a time of sowing the wind, and I think the whirlwind is coming.
You can disagree with the apocalyptic view of the result of all of this (what I would call a mass exercise in dehumanization), but I don't see how a thinking person can fail to see that this change in how people see each other is very important and possibly catastrophic.
Posted on 2/3/21 at 9:21 am to UltimaParadox
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I think some theaters will exist as a smaller niche type product.
It'd be cool to see drive-in theatres make a come back as a niche. Some already have.
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