All sorts of things are breaking due to major miscalculations during the pandemic. I have friends who work in the fashion industry and they're all worried about

All sorts of things are breaking due to major miscalculations during the pandemic. I have friends who work in the fashion industry and they're all worried about muted sales. NOT because of demand, but because they made some serious miscalculations about the kind of clothes people would want in 2022. So many of them went heavy on "comfort wear", thinking that somehow everyone will still be working from home and that going out will be an exception, not the norm. Many even expanded or created entirely new "home" lines that included selling towels, comforters, candle holders, etc. Now they're all finding out that people want normal, going-out clothes again, and their current catalogs just don't line up with the demand. The "new normal" was touted around way too aggressively. At least here in my reality, it's mostly gone back to the old normal with vestiges of the "new" remaining.