on march 12 nearly 18 million people passed through transportation security administration tsa checkpoints in airports according to us homeland security data a week later that number had fallen to about 620000 a drop of 66 a week after that it was 203000 by april fewer than 100000 people were flying on most days retail auto sales for the week ended march 8 came in just 1 under jd powers forecast the following week sales were 14 under forecast by the week of march 22 unit purchases were 36 below previrus forecast one week later they were 59 below forecast in the three weeks following march 11 2020 the industry faced the greatest demand shock experienced in modern times said tyson jominy vice president of data and analytics at jd power the closest parallel is 911 but 10 days after that crucial day gm launched its keep america rolling campaign that reignited sales restaurants went to zero with people home it didnt take long for service industries to shut down for the restaurant industry march 9 was the first day people stopped showing up according to data from open table march 8s seated diners from online phone and walkin reservations were off just 1 from a year earlier a day later the drop was 14 year over year by march 13 it was down 36 by march 20 it was down 9935 it would be june 21 before total patronage was down anything less than 50 from the equivalent day in 2019 the weekend of march 6 2020 was a normal one at the box office with us movie theaters bringing in more than 100 million in ticket sales disneys onward was the topgrossing movie followed by nbcuniversals the invisible man in an interview published march 8 cnn business asked comscore senior media analyst paul dergarabedian if he thought coronavirus fears were keeping anybody away from theaters its too early to tell he said i think the numbers this weekend wouldve likely been the same even without the current disruption happening at theaters all around the world i mean the totals are on track with what disney was expecting for onward the next weekend boxoffice revenue fell by nearly 50 to 54 million one week later it was 195952 by april the movie theater business had effectively stopped the coming weeks would bring all sorts of ripple effects up and down the supply chain restaurants and stores would change their businesses to deliveryfirst models entertainment companies would accelerate shifts to streaming video an early lagging indicator was oil supply as transportation stopped us refiners had to sit on unused barrels  a statistic that didnt show itself until several weeks after the world came to a halt the number of days of us gasoline supply still looked near normal on march 20 2020 by april 24 it had nearly doubled to 48 days that type of jump is unprecedented according to us energy information administration data