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Supply and Demand: The strange things that now cost a small fortune
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Supply and Demand: The strange things that now cost a small fortune
Description (Dublin Core)
With everyone trying to maintain social distancing to prevent the transmission of covid-19 during the heat of summer one thing has become very expensive, swimming pools. While inflatable back yard kiddie pools like the one pictured usually cost about $25 this one, and numerous others that look the same, are going for five times that on Amazon. Getting a pool isn't only extremely expensive in the inflatable variety, the same is true for larger above ground and inground pools. Our neighbor ordered an above ground pool back in late April or early May. The company delayed shipping for weeks and finally canceled the order because they couldn't fill it. At my house we decided to have an inground pool built. Though we started the process in early May the pool isn't scheduled to be finished until early October because the demand for pools to be built is enormous. Our builder told us they usually get about 120 inquires per month and in May they received over 600.
biography, pools, kids, supply and demand, HST580, ASU
HST 580
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Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
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Type (Dublin Core)
image
Source (Dublin Core)
Amazon
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Recreation & Leisure
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Curatorial Notes (Dublin Core)
From 03/2020 until 11/2022 we redacted information revealing covid and vaccination status of those other than the contributor but discontinued that practice on 11/14/2022. This note was bulk added to any item with the word "redacted" or "redact" in curatorial notes, so may not apply to all on which it appears. Erin Craft 12/28/2022
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
07/02/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/21/2020
12/28/2022
08/02/2022
10/08/2024
This item was submitted on July 2, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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