The situation is rapidly changing. The amount of people deemed safe to gather in a single place has dwindled from thousands, to hundreds, to ten. Restaurants, bars, movie theaters, and gyms in many major cities are shutting down. Meanwhile many office workers are facing new challenges of working remotely full time.

It has led to the rise in popularity of digital e-commerce web platform like shipt, Walmart, Instacart, Amazon and many more as numerous people finds digital e-commerce services reliable and safe during this time. Almost every customers practicing social distancing rely on this home delivery service the most and are willing to continue this for the next time as well. This has also changed the shopping behavior of the consumers on the geographical level. For instance, it has been witnessed that as compared to U.S., countries like Germany, U.K. and Japan do lack in shopping criteria basically in essential food items and groceries. This can be due to the leniency of U.S. law towards this COVID-19

In the e-commerce packaging industry, each dealer has predicted the crises that will occur due to the pandemic situations that the COVID-19 is generating globally in the e-commerce packaging market but COVID-19 has the mixed pattern situation for the e-commerce packaging companies in developing countries. The jumbled situation can be examined as we can see the demand for medicine, packaging food, raw food and other essential items has been increased dramatically. At the same time, the demand for other goods that are not used on a more frequent basis has decreased as a result of lock-ups in the various regions. For the product ranges sold by manufacturers / dealers, the effect of COVID-19 on the e-commerce packaging firms can be seen.