The Outdoors Boom Spared Many Retailers From The Harshest Impacts Of COVID
Feb 24, 2021
2020 was a year of taking away. People lost small comforts like browsing leisurely through stores, sitting for hours at a coffee shop, visiting family and friends. It was a year where many learned to get excited about other things instead, like making sourdough bread, no matter how short-lived. As months dragged on, the search for things to do and activities to pour oneself into reminded the general populace of something that had been there all along, but now suddenly seemed like an escape of the most remarkable kind: the outdoors.In between couch surfingand Zoom calls, people started looking out the window at the vast, unenclosed spaces around them, and realizing, “Hey — that’s somewhere safe I could go.” Read more at Retail Dive.
Outerwear was definitely a life saver on both the men’s and women’s side. Our strongest non clothing items were Axes. We sold out of big axes, hatchets and splitting axes four times. Across the country so many axes sold the axe company ran out. Chop on…. 😀