Supply and Demand: The strange things that now cost a small fortune

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Title (Dublin Core)

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

Date (Dublin Core)

July 1, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

image

Source (Dublin Core)

Amazon

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Recreation & Leisure

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

pools

summer

limited

price increase

family

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Image of a male doctor holding a sign which reads I stayed at work for you, you stay at home for us.

Doctor asking us to stay home

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

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

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Covid 19

Arizona State University

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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