Experts say long lines for non-essential items may be born out of people's desire to wrest back part of their pre-pandemic lives.
Long lines of people waiting to get into big-box and grocery stores were an early phenomenon of the COVID-19 pandemic.Cars lined up for doughnuts and, more recently, for ice cream and burgers at drive-thrus have backed up traffic at various locales in Canada.
The Winnipeg ice-cream shop Bridge Drive-In closed its drive-thru just two days after opening because of traffic congestion that created friction with neighbours.And gardening, considered a non-risky outdoor activity after a long winter, created a backlog at an Ontario greenhouse when it opened recently.
James Danckert, a University of Waterloo psychology professor who specializes in boredom, says long lines for non-essential items may be born out of people's desire to wrest back part of their pre-pandemic lives.
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