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$2 shop lockdown


Another photo I've found from our 2020 lockdown, hardly anyone around the streets, the odd car here and there but deathly quiet.

Linking up with Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup. 

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Billy Blue Eyes said…
I thought it used to be one dollar shop
7 August 2021 at 07:46
Amypie said…
We have gold coin shop (cos our 1 dollar and 2 dollars are gold coins) or the $2 shop
7 August 2021 at 08:29
William Kendall said…
The Dollarama is the most wide spread of them here, but there are a couple of others.
7 August 2021 at 08:37
Lydia C. Lee said…
I went into the city to pick up food from a restaurant and other than the vax centre queue, that was it....#WeekendReflection
7 August 2021 at 09:49
Tom said…
...dollar stores sure have become popular. I remember as a kid there were 5 and dimes, look what inflation can do!
7 August 2021 at 10:26
Jackie McGuinness said…
It was the same here in the first lockdown.
We just call it the dollar store although most things cost more than a dollar.
7 August 2021 at 11:19
Jim said…
Like Tom, I too remember the "Five and Dime" stores. Now we have "Dollar Stores" and "99c Stores" here in Texas. Oh yes, a "5$ or Less Store" chain.
Your window Reflections shot is really good.
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7 August 2021 at 12:05
Betty J. Crow said…
Dollar stores are everywhere these days. Sad to see the empty streets.
7 August 2021 at 13:11
Tigger's Mum said…
I so love the verandahs over the streets. I'm currently in one of the most intensely sunny and hot countries in Europe and they don't routinely shelter their pavements from sun!
7 August 2021 at 18:05
Iris Flavia said…
Ghost towns everywhere. And then you see soccer-fans partying without masks, close to each other... we will go back and forth like that.
7 August 2021 at 20:35
Margaret Birding For Pleasure said…
Lett us hope those days are behind us. Have a lovely weekend and week ahead.
8 August 2021 at 01:27
Sharon said…
I remember those days well. It was strange to see so many places that are normally busy with no one in sight.
8 August 2021 at 02:28
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