Posts both on here and in the wider media make me think hobby shopping will decrease in popularity. Partly because masks, queues, one way systems and not being able to touch the merchandise makes it a hassle. Partly because the economic outlook is rough and people will have less disposible cash. And by the time the high street does reopen, store closures mean it is likely to be a very different place.
People can still buy things online, of course, but that doesn't replicate the 'browse around the shops, try a few things on, have a coffee, flick through some books,' experience which is as much about doing something outside the house and away from the family as it is about buying. Given shopping often appears as a popular pastime on leisure time surveys, what do you think people will do instead which will fill that gap?
(I'm aware a thread like this is a open invitation for a certain type of poster to derail it by making it all about how they and their family would never do anything as crass as hobby shop in the first place. Knock yourself out if you don't have the self awareness to stop yourself, but your moral superiority is not really what I'm interested in. I'm wondering how society might change.)
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What do you think will replace shopping as a pastime?
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Cartright · 25/07/2020 09:11
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