This episode is the first of our new podcast series on “Restarting Europe” where Food and Nutrition Analyst Margaux Laine and Consultant Maria Bogdanova look at the opportunities the opening of economies brings for retail. The rates of vaccination are picking up in Europe and governments in the United Kingdom and Denmark are going as far as announcing they prepare to lift all restrictions by July and October this year. Now many of us have been homebound for an extensive period, going into our second year. But what if the role of the retail store was already called into question pre-pandemic, how has this pandemic pushed this forward?