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The latest COVID hot commodities? Apparently espresso machines, jacuzzis, and Rolex watches
Shopping trends can now almost serve as markers for the different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. First, Americans rushed to buy toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Then, exercise bikes, camping gear, and Nintendo switches.
By Madeleine Brand • • 9m ListenShopping trends can now almost serve as markers for the different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. First, Americans rushed to buy toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Then, exercise bikes, camping gear, and Nintendo switches. Now, over a year into the pandemic, items such as espresso equipment, natural deodorant, jacuzzis, and Rolex watches have become hard to find.
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- 9:07Restaurants are scrambling to hire bussers, waiters, and bartenders as economy reopens
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- 25:49How mothers of MLK, Malcolm X and James Baldwin shaped their sons' activism
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