surround.sound.enthusiast
500 Club - QQ All-Star
Yeah, here in the U.S. we still haven't tightened our belts enough with regards to COVID, or we did for a while, but then human and American nature intervened.I'm more surprised by the fact that you have non-food stores that are open than that they have cassettes for sale!
For a while everything was closed except for mostly essential businesses (though some of those deemed "essential" were debatable, like state-run liquor stores (?!?). I love my drink, but don't feel they are essential. Now ask those state governments, who make income through those stores, and well...), but then between collective cabin fever, anxiety from shuttered business owners, ignorance/indifference, and American arrogance about being "special" in the world, things have loosened up and re-opened. This of course varies place to place across the country, some might still be locked down pretty tight, others may never have really locked down at all. But the World Health Organization's stats show the side effect of how we've handled this matter as a nation.
I may have inflamed or insulted some fellow American members here with what I've just said, and I'm sorry if I have, but this was only my point of view.
All of that aside, yes, when I go to buy groceries I briefly stop at the local music store to pick-up any special orders that have arrived, and then I'm out again.