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one-touch or completely touchless [process], that’s even better. And when you take all these things together, it will be quite interesting to see what happens next, including which of these habits — for example, [wiping] your kitchen counter more often and [wiping] it with a product that then you can dispose of with the germs — will that be a habit that will stick around? It’s hard to tell. We’re trying to figure that out and position ourselves accordingly.
MR: If you look at the end markets, there’s obviously been an explo- sion in ecommerce. And it’s quite clear that when the lockdown ends, these high rates of ecommerce use are there to stay. So the economy is just this whole ecom- merce [boom], and how we can really help [companies] adapt their business models to where it’s going to be a very
different end market in the future. We’ve seen a lot of this whole digital, people wanting to communicate, to work with us differently. You know, people not coming back to work, [in] our supply chains, customers, even our own staff. So again, we’re giving a lot of thought to that and there’s some really positive things, but there’s also some
negative ones.
We think it’s great people work at
home, but I’m concerned there could be some negative conse- quences further along. People getting isolated away from
their colleagues and things like that. So we’ve got some work to do right
there. But then sustainabil- ity, if we talked
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“If you look at the end markets, there’s obviously been an explosion in ecommerce. And it’s
quite clear that when the lockdown ends, these high rates of ecommerce use are there to stay.” — Miles Roberts