The global Covid-19 pandemic is first and foremost a health emergency. But it is also an economic crisis, causing astonishing turmoil for retailers around the world as they close the doors on their physical stores. For how long, we don’t yet know. In many sectors of retail, business has all but stopped, and without hardly any warning. And we are, frankly, only at a very early stage of whatever this is.

In our next episode of ‘The Special’, we delve into the ramifications of the retail apocalypse that nobody saw coming.