Hot Pandemic Summer Is Great for Swimming Pools
Makers of pools and related equipment are seeing a spike in demand. Other parts of the manufacturing world? Not so much.
Bad news goes down easier when you are floating in your own pool.
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Something about earnings season just hits differently when there’s a pandemic, you’re nearly five months into the great work-from-home experiment and it’s approximately 10 billion degrees outside. Absent a vaccine, fresh government stimulus and a concrete recovery in jobs and the economy, what would really make things better is a pool. For most of us, that means revisiting our childhoods with pools of the inflatable variety. Others have decided now is the time to splurge on a real cement pond or upgrade their current set-up.