Puzzle Warehouse, a family-owned shop in St. Louis, suddenly found itself overwhelmed with business. “We’ve never seen something like this,” said owner Brian Way.
As the reality started sinking in across the country that Americans would be urged to stay home for an indefinite period of time during the covid-19 crisis, people have been buying large volumes of beans and rice and soap.The Puzzle Warehouse, a family-owned shop in St. Louis with a huge selection of puzzles, suddenly found itself overwhelmed with business last week.
“This is beyond even Christmas volume,” said Brian Way, who has owned the store with his wife, Susan, for about 10 years. “That’s just insane.” On a normal day, the store sells 1,000 puzzles. In the past week or so, it’s selling as many as 10,000 a day. Some sales were through its bricks-and-mortar store, which is now closed indefinitely because of covid-19, but the bulk of the orders are online and shipped from the company’s warehouse.
They’re choosing something, he said, that might allow cooped up families to spend hours together on a shared project. Big retailers like Amazon are selling out of puzzles, as are local toy stores, many of which have closed. Puzzle Warehouse, which calls itself “the largest jigsaw puzzle store in the USA” has a about 10,000 different puzzle choices in its inventory.The store has sold out of many in the recent rush, but expects to restock by the weekend as long as it gets its shipments.
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