Strong opportunities exist for cloud kitchens (i.e., ghost kitchens, virtual restaurants), whose low overhead costs, nonpublic nature, and convenient consumer access via mobile app make them well suited for foodservice operations during a pandemic.

Due to their ‘essential’ status in more than 20 states as suppliers of medicinal products, cannabis businesses are reporting strong sales amid the pandemic.

Pool and spa sales are booming amid the pandemic, providing a short-term boost for a global market.

Some healthcare segments are already well established in the homecare setting, but others will need to quickly adapt to the movement toward more frequent in-home patient care services. Freedonia Custom Research's William Cochran addresses the trends and opportunities.

Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 2017 for its stirring depiction of families seeking to find and maintain a place to live. Readers of the book learned that America faces an affordable housing crisis.

The use of pallets is related to manufacturing activity and consumer demand so the negative economic disruption associated with the COVID-19 crisis is likely to reduce sales of pallets. However, replacement pallets continue to be necessary for the continued distribution of goods.

Stuck at home, consumers are shifting their spending behavior. Some disposable income that would be spent on dining out or going on vacation is now going toward home improvement.