3 Trends Set to Shape Daily Life in a Post-Covid World

Wendy L. Webb
6 min readApr 12, 2020
Photograph by Alex Wong

As we shelter in place, life adapts to our need to stay at home. What businesses and services are turning this sharp curve in ways that deserves notice? A post-covid world will want to expand and advance its most effective adaptations. Here’s a look at three points of sale keeping pace with a world on lockdown.

  1. The Drive-Thru

Suprisingly, McDonald’s was not the first to make popular the Drive-Thru restaurant and did not get in on the Drive-Thru scene until the 1970s. Drive-Thrus evolved from the pick-up window and from restaurants delivering food to parked cars as far back as the 1930s. Popular early Drive-Thrus: The Pig Stand in Texas in 1931, In & Out Burger in California in the late 1940s. Wendy’s entered the scene in the 1970s. Drive-Thrus appealed to the new rapid need for affordable food that saved on time as much as dollars.

Photograph by Michelle Henders

These days businesses such as Starbucks and Walgreens, and many banks have already modeled from fast…

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Wendy L. Webb

Wendy writes on Culture, Health, Wellness, and the Environment. She is a web designer for holistic entrepeneurs. MFA, School of Visual Arts. wendylwebb.com