Unforseen Hardship Post Lockdown!
May 14, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic stopped all the non-essential businesses, all these businesses were dead due to lockdown initiated in many parts of the world. Other than the losses that happened due to no income generation the worst part was yet to come. After two months, finally, a leatherwear and accessories store opened its door after a nationwide lockdown only to find out that its entire inventory had molded.
As if lockdown was not bad for businesses, this was a very sad surprise.
A Facebook user by the name of Nex Nezeum recently shared some photos of various leather products covered in great amounts of fungal mold. Shoes, bags, wallets, belts, and even the furniture and flooring were molding.
In March, Malaysia enacted the movement Control Order, more commonly known as a lockdown in the rest of the world, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Non-essential businesses such as this leatherwear and accessory store were shut down .
So, after 53 days a of lockdown, the state made some relaxations for the lockdown, allowing the non-essential business to open up again while maintaining physical distancing.
The store’s entire stock was gone bad, and not much information is available but people speculate that this is a Metrojaya Department Store in the Sabah State and that the air conditioning was turned off in certain unused areas of the outlet to save money on resource and maintenance costs.
