Covid-19 has transformed large swathes of the economy in remarkable and generally not very positive ways. Pretty much every sector is having to do things differently, as staff toil from home, those who are in work practice social distancing, supply chains are disrupted and demand falls off a cliff.
But few areas of the economy are experiencing bigger levels of shock and upset than retail. And when the virus is finally banished from our shores and things return to a new normal, there are a number of ways in which retail will probably be changed utterly, and forever. 1.
Loss of many retailers On Thursday, Debenhams announced that it expected that the administrator appointed to its UK operations would appoint a liquidator to its Irish