| Covid-19 brought everyday activities like grocery shopping and clothes buying to a stunning halt more than a year ago. Retailers already struggling with the demise of the brick-and-mortar model had to find a way — fast — to keep customers coming. Many, including the smallest of businesses, innovated on the fly and were rewarded handsomely; others simply couldn't survive the coronavirus's crushing blow. Whether "normalcy" is really on its way back (or will ever return) is still an open question. But even if how we consume has changed forever, we'll always need more stuff. It's 2021. Why Is Buying Clothes Online Still So Hard? — Andrea Felsted and Alex Webb Even Engagement Rings Are a Curbside Purchase Now — Sarah Halzack GameStop Believers Can Applaud Hires If Not Earnings — Tae Kim Unions Are Back in Favor. They Need to Seize the Moment. — Joe Nocera How Amazon Is Fighting Door to Door to Beat Ambani — Andy Mukherjee What Walmart Can Learn From a Failed British Banking Experiment — Andrea Felsted and Sarah Halzack Gap's Failed Fixer Is Trying His Hand at SPACs. Now? — Sarah Halzack This is the Theme of the Week edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a digest of our top commentary published every Sunday. | 
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