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Top online categories during the COVID-19 crisis include personal care products. 

A new report from Coresight Research predicts that 20,000 to 25,000 stores will close in the United States this year.

The grocery industry has exerted the most consistent and visible efforts in implementing health and safety standards in response to the pandemic, followed by big-box and drug stores.

Consumers are starting to increase their online spending across traditional retail categories. 

The U.S. retail sector could take years to recover from the impact of COVID-19, and the hit could be worse than that of the Great Recession. 

In its report focusing on 2020’s historic first quarter, JLL observed that retail and real estate were among the industries hardest hit by COVID-19.

Amazon said it will donate $10 million to 11 organizations “working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of Black and African Americans.”

Shopping center experts weigh in on the pandemic that shuttered centers and how they think the next few months will play out in the May/June issue of Chain Store Age.