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Worry, haste, retail therapy: What have we bought and why?

by Associated Press
| May 26, 2020 7:30 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Between technical glitches and food worries, retail therapy and sheer amnesia, something has happened to shopping during the pandemic that can be summed up thusly: rubber chickens.

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