Malaysia's lockdown has big impacts on the Singapore retail industry, which includes electronics, textiles, furniture, raw materials and more. Read on to find out what you can do as a consumer.

A surge in demand for furniture, exercise equipment and other goods for shoppers sheltering at home in a worsening COVID-19 pandemic has upended normal trade flows. That has stranded empty cargo containers in the wrong places, spawning bottlenecks that now stretch from factories to seaports.