In response to the Covid crisis many retailers and their partners are looking for technology that will make the value chain more agile, reports My Total Retail.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a once-in-a-century event that will likely change shopping patterns in ways we couldn’t have predicted even as recently as 2019. However, the virus is just the latest disruptive force in an already risky global retail environment.

According to Perishable News, in response to the need for a more secure and reliable cold supply chain Carrier has announced their new Healthy, Safe, Sustainable Cold Chain Program.

The need for safe and sustainable cold chain technologies to preserve and protect the supply of food, medicine and vaccines around the world has never been greater.. 

According to CSQ, new technologies played an important role in helping e-commerce grow during the pandemic, and even before. 

It is easy to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has been responsible for a tremendous shift from brick-and-mortar retail to e-commerce. After all, consumer spending on e-commerce jumped 31.8% from Q1 to Q2 2020, even as retail sales decreased.