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Golf pushcarts
It wasn't exactly a popular mode of club conveyance amongst the general golfing community pre-pandemic. But the three-wheeled handcart is all of a sudden nearly as hard to get as a tee time at Augusta, Georgia, The Wall Street Journal reports. As golf courses have begun reopening, eager golfers need an alternative to carry their clubs due to policies forbidding the use of caddies or motorized golf carts. Thus explaining why these oft-considered antiquated pushcarts have sold out at retailers everywhere, leaving manufactures like Bag Boy—which has seen sales increase 400 percent from pervious years—unable to keep up with the utterly unexpected market demand.
Bidets
That whole toilet paper hoarding situation we mentioned earlier? Well, that panic-buying behavior directly resulted in a huge increase of interest in another bathroom product: bidets. "Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we're seeing record-breaking traffic and sales with no signs of slowing down," a spokesperson for bidet manufacturer BioBidet recently told Yahoo! Lifestyle. And Tushy, a bathroom company known for its attachable bidets, said that they are doing 10 times the sales they were doing prior to the toilet paper shortage scare.
Radios
Oddly enough, radios have seen a huge spike in sales during the pandemic, jumping 244 percent in March compared to the first four weeks of 2020, according to data from Criteo. While we can only speculate as to what's driving consumer demand so significantly, it's likely in some way related to the mindset of being prepared, and having a way to receive and communicate information in the event other means of doing so stop functioning on a mass scale. Turns out though, our TVs and phones work just find amid the coronavirus.
Hair dye
With most salons and barbershops shuttered, some people have bravely turned to their partners, roommates, and sometimes even themselves, for haircuts. And people anxious to get rid of their roots that have grown out since their last professional dye job have also been forced to take matters into their own hands. In fact, hair dye has been flying off the shelves at such an impressive rate. Business Insider reports that in the week ending Apr. 11, Nielsen data showed that hair dye sales increased a massive 92.9 percent compared to the same week the year prior.
Sewing machines
Whether they are taking it up as a new quarantine hobby, making homemade masks, or just mending their wardrobe while they have some extra time at home, people across the country are sewing like they've never quite sewn before. In fact, USA Today recently reported that consumers are nabbing up sewing machines at such a rate that finding one for less than $400 right now is almost impossible.
Puzzles
We've all been looking for various sources of entertainment that aren't Tiger King and Love Is Blind. And what could be a better way to pass the time and challenge the mind than a good old-fashioned jigsaw puzzle? Apparently, that's what a lot of people thought, seeing as puzzle sales during the pandemic have been absolutely through the roof, NPR reports. "Around the second week of March, we noticed sales at one of our largest retail customers … were up 300 percent over the same week the previous year," Carol Glazer, president of Massachusetts-puzzle maker Ceaco, told NPR's All Things Considered. Several other major puzzle manufactures told a similar story, so consider yourself lucky if you were able to get your hands on a few in recent months.