Stop in for a cup of coffee

What’s weird is the effect the virus has had on the grocery store food chain.

i was reading an article in Ag World last week, in 2019, Americans averaged 1.6 trips to the grocery store with an average of 43 minutes per trip in the store. Not counting driving time. In 2020, during the pandemic mind you, the numbers increased to 3.9 times a week and time spent per trip is up to 63 minutes per trip. Spending on grocery store foods has more than quadrupled as well.

Now the article says it’s because people and students have been home more and I buy that. But I think it also is a combination of that plus restaurants being closed or heavily restricted in some areas and just like the old days where the town general store was the hang out, today’s grocery stores have become that too.