Post-pandemic lifestyle changes are not slowing demand for self storage, according to a new report from Placer.ai.

Its latest location intelligence suggests that self-storage chains are sustaining pandemic visit gains "even as consumers are spending more time outside the home and more businesses return to at least some form of in-person work," according to the report.

This is a departure from the hunkering down phase when consumers spent idle time sorting through their "stuff" and then looking for a place to put it. Others needed storage in the early 2020s as they rethought where they wanted to live in this "new world."

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