2020, the year the retail industry spent in lockdown

As a most challenging year comes to a close, retailers are looking back at a tumultuous time that started early in 2020. Storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge combined to make February the wettest on record, while at the same time the onset of the coronavirus that originated in China in December, spread quickly to the West, developing into a beastly pandemic that would soon halt physical retail and eradicate footfall for the unforeseeable future.