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Shocking Report: Bay Area Getting Drunk as Hell During Shelter-in-Place
SFIST ^ | March 31, 2020 | JOE KUKURA

Posted on 03/31/2020 5:30:11 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Wine.com reports that orders are up 400 percent during stay-at-home orders, as bottoms up is the top activity in these shut in times.

You’d be forgiven for blacking out around sundown and not having even noticed yet that liquor stores across San Francisco are being forced to close at 8 p.m. every night now, according to KRON 4. Mayor Breed issued that order Friday, another of the expanded shelter in place orders now in effect until at least May 1. Any cursory scrolling of social media you’ve done in the last two weeks — and yes, it has only been 14 days since this started — will show you that drinking alcohol has become a preferred pastime in the age of COVID-19. We now have the data to back this “No [expletive], Sherlock” observation; on the heels of Eater National's report that alcohol sales are skyrocketing (“Three-liter boxed wine is up 53 percent”), the Chronicle follows up with a report that Wine.com is seeing a 400 percent increase in spirits sales, from which Eater teases out the granular conclusion that Bay Area residents are drinking 42 percent more alcohol whilst stuck home.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfist.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: alcohol; bayarea; nancypelosi; sanfrancisco
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To: bgill

Oh wow, that’s terrible. :(


21 posted on 03/31/2020 6:39:47 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

No one is having sex, though, because of that six feet thing.


22 posted on 03/31/2020 7:05:09 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: chuckee

If I lived in SF; I would have moved decades ago.


23 posted on 03/31/2020 7:12:00 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: LIConFem

Only the Asian families in San Jose area.


24 posted on 03/31/2020 7:37:43 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Disambiguator

“No one is having sex, though, because of that six feet thing.”

Well, I am.

:)


25 posted on 03/31/2020 7:38:29 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

I shoulda used a sarc tag.


26 posted on 03/31/2020 8:07:09 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“...about the ‘Corona Bump of 2020.’”

Wonderful - an entire generation with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.


27 posted on 03/31/2020 8:47:12 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: EdnaMode

Work from home allows a lot of flexibility for Magarita Monday, Tequila Tuesday, Whiskey Wednesday...


28 posted on 04/01/2020 9:44:54 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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