The burgeoning retail sector’s progress got halted by the outbreak of the global pandemic in 2019. Growing through 2021 and beyond, retail companies need to transform and adapt to the changing outlook of the postpandemic retail world. Diversity, inclusion, workforce health, and safety would be at the top of the priority list for retail companies from now onwards. The article discusses varying contours of a retail rebound in the post-pandemic world, focusing on the US fortune 500 companies as case studies.
