E-commerce has been a major driver of supply-chain changes in the past two decades, growing from 1.3 percent of retail sales in 2000 to 14.2 percent in 2019.3 As consumers became more accustomed to buying everything from clothing to furniture online, leading companies developed new supply chains to reduce arrival times, from a week or more …

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Global shares in flux Big shifts in stock markets, where shares in companies are bought and sold, can affect the value of pensions or individual savings accounts (Isas). The FTSE, Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nikkei all saw huge falls as the number of Covid-19 cases grew in the first months of the crisis. …

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