- People shop more from home online when they're bored and mandated to stay confined in their residences.
- Most people tend to overspend when spending long periods of time surfing the world wide web.
- Working from home is today's new new of employment stability and staying healthy-steering clear of Omicron and COVID.
With New York City going back into lockdown mode due to Omicron and New Yorkers highly encouraged to “work from home,” the new virus strain will indirectly make many New Yorkers working from home potentially too lazy to shop in the big apple. The downside of Omicron putting New York City back into work from home lockdown mode is NYC mass transit will possibly see a huge dip in ridership revenues. Most New Yorkers are afraid of riding subway trains for fear of someone in the subway cars secretly carrying the virus.
When people are confined to home quarters for lengthy periods, spending and thinking habits tend to change. And because the new Omicron strain is running rampant throughout the Empire state forcing New Yorkers to stay home and ride New York City mass transit less, people will likely feel bored to the point of spending more time on the internet. As a result of being online for lengthy periods of time, most New Yorkers are likely to keep themselves preoccupied by finding their favorite online stores, purchasing more goods from home than they normally would offline.