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.