Retail Management of the Food Sector in the Indian Economy during Covid-19: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic caused significant changes to businesses worldwide, its rippling effects still being felt today. As businesses adapt to the new restrictions, multiple researchers have analysed the new environment that these organizations operate in. The changes included less footfall in physical stores and an increase in online deliveries leading to stores having to change their entire format of operations. This paper looks to construct a literary review of food retailing and its changes during the COVID-19 pandemic spanning the agriculture and food retail sector supply and demand fluctuations, supply chain disruptions, and the rise of doorstep food deliveries. This paper involves a holistic review of the challenges faced and overcome by food retailing businesses in the past three years, and the prospects of these evolved business models. Our study includes findings from previous research and tries to establish a connection between the problems mentioned above, the increased use of digital services, and the significance of the pandemic as the exacerbator of existing issues in the established infrastructure of the agriculture and food retail sectors. Keywords ; Covid-19 Pandemic; Food supply Chain; Retail; Agriculture