Can the Philippines’ shopping centres survive in a post-coronavirus world?

Over the past five years, summertime has been one of the busiest seasons for Patty Marabut, who co-owns a dessert shop called The Lost Bread. Its Instagram-worthy concoctions often draw long queues at its branches in and out of Metro Manila in the Philippines.This year, however, Marabut’s anticipated sales melted away as Covid-19 forced most of her would-be patrons to stay home. “Before the pandemic, we’d done several studies on how to transport our products and came to the conclusion that it…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3099333/can-philippines-shopping-centres-survive-post-coronavirus-world