With the rapid transitions into truly digital lifestyles that the pandemic is brought about, people aren’t entirely sure what the fate is for a lot of traditional businesses and various public environments. This isn’t a new concern or puzzle, with the last few decades having seen various mass extinctions of old concepts. At the same time, though, previously-dead concepts of been known to make comebacks due to unique experiences that no alternative would replace and a revived desire for said experiences.
While libraries do technically still exist, you can’t imagine a time very far into the future when they still exist, newspapers, magazines and physical books are staring down that same barrel of obsolescence with a few exceptions among. What fate awaits bookstores, news stands, magazine stands and other things dependent entirely on these dying forms of media?
When Covid hit, it forced everything to shut down aside from some unavoidable essentials. Kitchens still ran, grocery store still stocked the shelves, but most people had no choice but to switch to online solutions for acquiring their food and groceries and other essentials. They had to work online from home, they had to learn online from home. Delivery, online shopping and digital interaction became the norm.
This isn’t going to revert, at least not long-term, as the pandemic fades. Now, not every brick-and-mortar business type is going to disappear or not reopened. There are, again, certain experiences that can only be produced by physical locations one travels to. Various leisure sports, restaurant and certain entertainment experiences are prime examples of this. There is something unique about dinner theater, restaurants, bowling alleys and other such things that just can’t be had at home.
Certain types of stores will always have some brick-and-mortar presence, such as grocery stores, certain specialty stores and convenience stores, but you can expect them to be leaning more heavily on online portals moving forward, with the minority being those that shop inside. So, what awaits the bong shop near me in this future? Will we shop only through an online bongshop? I would say no.
It will definitely be a major part of shopping for smoking accessories across the entire spectrum, but there will always be a certain experience we get from visiting our local bong shop or other smoking product retailers, and there are definite incentives to continue supporting the artistic efforts of glassblowers and other such things. However, given how bongs break more easily the more you use them due to probability, it’s a good idea to have a source of replaceable the high quality glass for daily use. An online bongshop can provide just that, and I personally shop at the bong shop near me when I want a new artistic piece that has value as a work of art not just as a useful smoking utensil. I only use such nice bongs on special occasions when old friends visit, during holidays and that sort of thing. I use the quality but replaceable glass I get online for daily use.
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