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What industry or items do you think have been affected in this Pandemic?

  • 08-10-2020 09:09PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Myself I think bikes and games sales must be doing good. I see a lot more bikes around these days which is good and game sales because more people stuck at home with more time so they must be doing good surely.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Apparently replacement windows! Know of two companies booked out till Christmas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Zoom.

    On a more local level, I'd say the office furniture businesses are doing pretty well from all the WFH newbies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    The local offie in the supervalue down the road is doing a roaring trade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    Amazon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,141 ✭✭✭✭PsychoPete


    More cyclists? great, just what we need


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,518 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Anyone selling Perspex, Polycarbonate or Acrylic sheets, orders out the door.


  • Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    zoom


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,510 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Companies making hand sanitizers !!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    China (+7% GDP 2020).


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 141 ✭✭Thomas..


    Covid Co.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Any decent online store.

    Bicycle shops

    E scooters

    Any delivery service

    Grocery

    Furniture stores

    Tradesmen esp painters and decorators.



    A huge number of industries have boomed. Taxi drivers are now driving dpd and anpost vans, bar workers are now retail workers etc etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,955 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Log cabins, loadsa people getting them in as home offices.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 141 ✭✭Thomas..


    Darc19 wrote: »



    Taxi drivers are now driving dpd and anpost vans.

    They wouldn't have enough hours in the day to do all 3 jobs ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Heating oil and other winter fuel for the workers from home


  • Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Nayeli Sour Gunshot


    Porn industry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    UV Light product makers. Perspex. Elastic band manufacturers. People who lease welfare units to building sites. Yellow ink suppliers. Hand wash companies. Hand sanitiser - I have been using the handmade soap company, an Irish firm, because their sanitiser smells lovely and I really hate the other chemical smelling stuff. Amazon. Online shopping generally. Cloth mask makers on Etsy. Seed suppliers and garden places online. Local shops during lockdown - our village shopkeeper must have become a billionaire.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 141 ✭✭Thomas..


    Sign making companies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭Timing belt


    Off-licences have never sold so much booze...they must be swimming in cash


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Delighted the games industry is doing really well. Also broadband companies are doing really well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭NovemberWren


    Stockbrokers. - There are thousands of Sinn Fein unemployed who avidly trade on the web. [as also do Postmen, Bus Drivers, etc. etc.].


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    The World's Billionaires {$10.2trillion}:

    A report by Swiss bank UBS found that billionaires increased their wealth by more than a quarter (+27.5%) at the height of the crisis from April to July, just as millions of people around the world lost their jobs or were struggling to get by on government schemes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,784 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Hair trimmers

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Apparently replacement windows! Know of two companies booked out till Christmas.

    people spending more time at home , not hugely surprising


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    Ministerial advisors. A growth industry of the blind leading the dumb.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭mobileforest


    Affected? Both positive and negative? Positive, internet security services. Negative would be the cruise ship industry. I bet those guys feel like the blimp industry following the Hindenburg disaster.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 141 ✭✭Thomas..


    Affected? Both positive and negative? Positive, internet security services. Negative would be the cruise ship industry. I bet those guys feel like the blimp industry following the Hindenburg disaster.

    The fire brigade following the Hindenburg disaster


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    Menswear clothes shop and ladies boutiques days must be slow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Catering very badly affected. My business was supplying high-speed/rapid cook ovens, microwaves, commercial toasters, steamers etc to delis, canteens, pubs and the like.

    Business literally disappeared overnight. Had to let 14 lads go. Rehired one of them to carry out the small bit of maintenance and repair work that is still ongoing, but no sales at all. Almost impossible get paid as well. In fairness I never held too much stock, so there's that.

    I'd had a mighty before years before that in fairness, and will be grand, but it's the lads you'd feel sorry for. All Eastern European and nearly all with young families. Very hard for all businesses involved in catering - food suppliers, equipment providers, maintenance etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    Courier and Logistic services.

    Online education and training.

    Home gym equipment providers.

    Tech in general, but especially online meeting and collaboration platforms, and cybersecurity firms/professionals.

    Discount supermarkets and local butchers/grocers/bakeries.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Porn industry.

    And thethe sales if tissue paper for the above


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