Grading Our 2021 Predictions

Dear Client:   It's that time of the year again, dear readers, where your editors take a look back at the predictions we made for the previous year and see how we did.  PREDICTION: STICKY COVID TRENDS. We expected a few COVID-related trends to stick around in 2021, including bev alc sales over indexing in the off-premise as the on-premise slowly reopens and the continued rise of e-commerce.  OUTCOME: All true, but what we didn't predict was that COVID itself