Well, they don't have bricks and mortar and won't deliver to our neighborhood but, yeah, they still supply stuff to others, I assume. Though, I've found annoying awkwardness for non-perishable - even well before the pandemic, I was writing entries like https://mtbc.dreamwidth.org/219036.html, maybe it's been declining for a while.

In a country where every new political administration replaces the top several layers of functionaries with their friends and associates, and where experts and empiricism are held in increasing disdain (decreasing dain? (-:), and many people seem to believe easily falsified things about their society, it's difficult to be optimistic about the trajectory. And now here in the UK we are busy very forseeably shooting ourselves in both feet. I wonder how strategic deglobalization affects all this.