Shortly after the country started tracking the rising death toll from Covid-19, morbid headlines also began to spread across the business pages of national newspapers.
From retail to hospitality, commentators said entire sectors faced existential threats. With consumers moving online and companies in the virtual world picking up the profits, a death knell sounded for the bricks-and-mortar businesses that have been serving consumers in person for decades, if not centuries.
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