New trends (some are weird)

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This is Mike from Treendly.com

Here are some new trends:

Lottery Frenzy

Instant lottery always had a range of fans around the world. Caused by recent layoffs and turbulences on the job market, many people found themselves in financial problems and started buying instant lottery tickets daily. For them, even the slightest gain could override the lack of income or solve some minor financial issues.

Instant lottery tickets and scratcher games regained their popularity when people started thinking about instant strategies on how many tickets, they need to buy to eventually get some money.

Getting rich overnight became an obsession and ticket sales around the world have been growing rapidly in the last few months. For instance, in Oklahoma it went from $2.5 to $7.7million, and in Canada tickets are now sold online due to safety issues since a lot of people were gathering to buy them, and it possessed a serious health risk.

The Rebirth of TV Shops

Shopping channels are a type of television program that typically features live presentations of products, often hosted by live presenters who would explain all the features and try to sell to the public.

Viewers would order the merchandise through phone calls and products were usually mainstream goods, but some specialized programs would sell jewelry, clothing, furniture, and home appliances. This concept has started in the 1980s as a Home Shopping Club and since 2017 it is known as QVC.

Nowadays, with growing online stores nobody could predict that TV Shops will regain some of its former popularity. In some countries, the sales saw an increase of 30% during lockdowns when people were watching tv a lot more than before.

Online Shopping Trips

In times when people are stranded at home with not much to do, services that allow shared experiences are on demand. And when people need their friends and family's opinion the most – when they are shopping. During lockdowns it was impossible to shop any other way than online and what’s better than sharing a social shopping trip experience with others.

Thanks to browser extensions like Squadded, this is now possible. If the real trip to the store is out of the question, they made their “Joint Trip” where people can share bought items with friends. Also, there is a special chat where items can be reviewed, commented, and shared with everyone.

These types of shared experiences are already available on various platforms. For example, Netflix made Party mode to incentivize more people to subscribe, so they could be a part of separate groups and watch all its content simultaneously with friends, family, and loved ones.

The Rise of Sterilization Robots

As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve, supermarkets are still open to facilitate consumers who need to purchase items of necessity for their everyday lives.

Central Food Hall in Thailand becomes the first supermarket to introduce disinfection robot using UV-C light to reduce the spread of COVID-19. After the store is closed, the staff carries out the sterilization process, which uses ultraviolet rays. In the future, the use of robots may continue to grow.

Artificial Human Company

For people who live alone and had to spend lockdown all by themselves, it was demanding to deprive themselves of any company. That is why a handful of them started buying plastic dolls and behaving like they are alive.

This kind of behavior did raise some eyebrows, but since it does not harm anybody, it became socially acceptable in certain communities and even stadiums and cafes started using relaxing dummies to relax their customers.

It is a controversial topic, and there is no proof of how sitting in a yard of plastic dolls can help anyone feeling better, since some of the immobile figures look quite bizarre.

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