pandemic fall and winter might want to pick up outdoor heaters, skis, skates and puzzles while they can.Retail experts are predicting these items — and anything else that busts boredom or promotes time outdoors, where the odds of encountering COVID-19 are lower — will fly off shelves, if they aren’t already.Lisa Hutcheson, managing partner at consulting firm J.C.
Williams Group, and her team has spent the last few weeks brainstorming what products will soon be as hard to come by as toilet paper, sourdough starter, hair dye and bikes were months ago.They think anything to do with leisure at home or outdoors but at a distance is sure to be popular.