David's Tea, the Montreal$-$based beverage retailer, is closing all but $18$ of its stores in Canada to focus on its ecommerce business, citing the COVID$-19$ pandemic as worsening their already challenging retail conditions. This is an example of David's Tea's strategic planning process identifying critical issues in which of the following?

Question $9$ options:

the BCG matrix

the marketing environment

the competitive landscape

SWOT analysis