Maybe COVID broke the habit for restaurants and/or coffee shops? It certainly gave a lot of people time to think about where they were career-wise and how and

Maybe COVID broke the habit for restaurants and/or coffee shops? It certainly gave a lot of people time to think about where they were career-wise and how and whether they wanted to work. It really messed up child care which I think is still a problem - keeping primarily women home tending to kids rather than working. Couple this with boomer retirement and there's a whole lot of missing workers. And if the service industry habits don't return, that'll keep cash on the sidelines and workers out of the restaurants and shops. Retail was getting whacked vs. on-line shopping pre-COVID and it's only gotten worse, so that's another transfer of workers into other industries. Maybe the car-based startups (Uber, food delivery) will have cashflow issues to free up some workers, but it hasn't happened yet. And there's worse things that Amazon warehouses I guess (such as airport staff and screeners)? Hope things get better re: travel next year.