{"id":12458,"date":"2020-12-24T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=12458"},"modified":"2020-12-24T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T07:45:08","slug":"christmas-eve-2020-shopping-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/christmas-eve-2020-shopping-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve 2020 Shopping Crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would have thought this year for Christmas shopping the malls would be dead. But to my surprise there were still a ton of people. Granted it is nowhere near as large as it should be for the last day before Christmas, but it was busy enough to seem like people are trying to live semi normal. I seemed like the bulk of the traffic were people trying to get last minute grocery shopping for Christmas dinner. I would have thought people would have had this done a while ago since gatherings are supposed to be small.<\/p>\n

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As well, there seemed to be a mix of early Boxing Day crowds as stores were having early sales. From reading the news you would think the malls would be a ghost town of sort. But I guess as I mentioned before too, one thing that didn\u2019t seem to change is how when there is a deal to be found people will still make the trip.<\/p>\n

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That potentially shows in 2021 that a lot of people will go on as usual minus some minor changes until everything is truly back to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would have thought this year for Christmas shopping the malls would be dead. But to my surprise there were still a ton of people. Granted it is nowhere near as large as it should be for the last day before Christmas, but it was busy enough to seem like people are trying to live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[7497,2866,7794],"class_list":["post-12458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-7497","tag-christmas-eve","tag-shopping-crowds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/crowd3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-3eW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12462,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions\/12462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}