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remedies flew off the shelves. The auto industry stopped, and the used car market exploded. The strangest things happened: We learned how to cook, we learned how to read and play instruments, we learned how to work out at home, and the hardest thing of all is that we had kids to care for instead of sending them off to school. Moms took the brunt of this while working at home, cooking, cleaning and teaching their children. Many moms will never return to work. All of this changed the retail market. “So, what’s next for 2021? E-commerce will roar on for the next six months. The pandemic will filter out and we will crawl out from underneath the rocks and come into the light of a new and different world. I believe we will take our streets back from the Amazon, UPS and FedEx deliv- ery employees who have cluttered up our doorsteps with boxes of stuff. One cannot even drive down my street be- cause of all the deliveries being made. And who are those imposter-like delivery people lurking around the neigh- borhood stealing things off our doorsteps? This too will change as we come out and begin a new normal. “David Calhoun, the CEO of Boeing, and Michael O’Leary, the CEO of Ryanair, are banking on big chang- es coming in travel this summer. Ryanair bought 75 737 Max jets. International Airlines Corp. (Air Lingus, British Airways, Iberia) bought 200 737 Max jets for the boom in travel coming soon. Travel will explode this summer. We want to get out! CONTINUED ON PAGE 28
do believe that when we complete our expansion our fa- cility will be the envy of other converters. It’s something I am personally very proud to be a part of. Let’s all hope that when this article appears, we are on the road to blotting out this horrific period in our lives. Best wishes to all for a successful 2021!” BAY CITIES Pico Rivera, California: Greg Tucker reports, “What’s to come in our next world at retail? We know that retail has been shuttered during the pandemic and e-commerce has
grown leap years inside of a few months. Retail shifted to e-com- merce, order on-line pick up at store, groceries were delivered by delivery services and everything shifted into a different world of buying goods and services. “Travel stopped, airlines were decimated and things like jew-
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elry, apparel and accessories (except masks) were not the place to be invested in. Restaurants were shut down and opened up and shut down again. We bought more toilet paper, disinfectant and paper towels than anyone could ever imagine. We bought more vitamins and im- munity solutions than ever before. All of the cold and flu
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