Covid Is Shaking Up Back-to-School Shopping
The patchwork of regional reopening policies threatens to create a logistics nightmare for retailers.
Retailers may end up with loads of gear they couldn’t sell and still other items they couldn’t keep in stock.
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
School districts nationwide are beginning to announce their reopening plans for the coming academic year. The policies vary widely, with Atlanta and Los Angeles saying that school would be entirely online and, New York, the country’s largest district, opting for a mix of in-person and digital learning.
Of course, the primary tragedy of resorting to these non-traditional approaches to education amid Covid-19 is that it punishes students, who deserve a more immersive and social learning experience, and their parents, who badly need kids to be in school so they can get back to work.