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Hello everyone! As well as serious implications for people’s health, COVID-19 is significantly impacting economy and businesses especially the small businesses. A survey conducted here, https://www.pnas.org/content/117/30/17656 to more than 5800 small businesses in US found that 43% of businesses had temporarily closed, and nearly all of these closures were due to COVID-19 (Scheinkman, 2020). The pandemic is expected to continue and this absolutely can cause to many losses to small businessess particularly. So, what can we do to help steer our own business through this pandemic?

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Everyone, have you ever thought of how far does this COVID-19 disease affected the traditional retail in our country? Since the MCO began, the retail activities have been shut down. It brings enormous losses to the traditional retailers. This pandemic has forced people to just make online purchasing to get anything that they want without going out from home. According to Malaysiakini (2020), E-commerce posses a significant threat to traditional retailers. Data from Global Web Index showed 80% of Malaysia’s 26 million internet users between the ages of 16 to 64 are already shopping online. Also, you can look at the graph below too. Did you guys aware about this?

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Hi guys! how are you guys doing in this pandemic? I hope you guys are okay. So, from this pandemic, there are some issues that traditional retail are degenerating because of the pandemic. It’s undeniable that coronavirus has negatively impacted businesses all over the world and our survey results solidify it as such with an overwhelming 93% of respondents noting that it will negatively impact their business. which you can read more here https://managementevents.com/news/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-businesses/ .
Can I have your opinions of this issue? Is traditional retail really are degenerating in this pandemic?

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Hello, everyone. I have created this online forum so we can discuss about the topic that is "E-Commerce".  The main issue of this topic is how covid-19 is changing traditional retail and e-commerce. Firstly, I will explain about e-commerce. According to the website https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ecommerce.asp,  Electronic commerce or e-commerce (sometimes written as eCommerce) is a business model that lets firms and individuals buy and sell things over the internet. (Bloomenthal, 2020). Now, the important question is, how important is e-commerce in 2020? What do you guys think about this?