Fourteen days of mandatory lockdown and it has just been five days and it feels like forever. The boredom though is not the story here today. Can we just take some time to analyse which of these businesses have had their demand go high due to the Coronavirus outbreak?
Internet and Data Services
To start with, let’s talk about the Internet and Data Services. Now, students and the majority of corporate workers are home, deprived of the free WiFi that they may have enjoyed at school or at work.
Students are having online classes and workers are having to work from home, thus, striking a significant level of demand on airtime and internet data.
TV Subscriptions
Next, Pay-TV services. You may probably be wondering how pay-TV or subscription TV services are making a profit from this pandemic, if workers are still working from their homes and students are still having classes online? Well, there is still the 8-year old child whose parents, although busy working, are also insecure about leaving them to watch normal TV where they would be watching cartoons this minute, and the next minute, there’s a PG16+ movie. Most people prefer to subscribe their kids on Nickelodeon, Disney and other pay channels. After a long day of work or online studying, we could also do with some Netflix and chill before bed.
As some businesses are still running online, even the miser who always preferred to self-pick his ordered items with a minimum of five cedis fare in his pocket is now left with no option than pay twenty cedis for delivery right within Accra. You may not see because obviously, everyone is indoors but undoubtedly, ‘tis the riders’ season’.
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Hand sanitiser industry
Hand sanitiser industries, we can all agree were first to start experiencing high demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With its high demand came swift price increments, and stocks running out here and there. Do you think they had the highest demand?
To finish it off, we have the Veronica bucket makers. Making use of Veronica buckets has not exactly been the norm here in Ghana but it became a beautiful sight after the outbreak of the Covid-19, seeing these at various stop points in town. Veronica bucket makers seem to have made out their good from the prevailing bad.
So, as they say, everything has its time and there’s always some positive in every negative. Clearly, these five businesses have had their fair share of positive in these bad times. Which of these businesses, to you, has had the highest demand since the Coronavirus outbreak in the country?
By: Maureen Dedei Quaye
