Some Online Retailers Halting Shipments

Retailers began taking necessary steps in the last couple of weeks to protect their employees and customers from the growing spread of the coronavirus by closing their brick-and-mortar stores. Now certain retailers are taking the further step of closing their e-commerce sites as states' stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders are preventing them from fulfilling online orders.

For example, L Brands, parent company of Victoria's Secret, announced that it is halting e-commerce orders for that brand through March 29. Reformation announced it’s closing its Los Angeles factory and distribution center, as a result of California’s “Safer at Home” mandate. Any online orders will not be shipped until distribution centers reopen, the fashion retailer's statement said. And New York-based Marysia announced its online store will be closed indefinitely.