Sustainable development is the most important way to solve the problems facing our planet. It can only be achieved through the joint efforts of the world's progressive community, and this is how the struggle for the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals is ongoing. The authors of the article believe that retail can play a role in achieving sustainable development goals. Therefore, attention is focused on its role in understanding the goals of sustainable development, such as human health and well-being and sustainable consumption and production. The authors also discuss, to some extent, environmental protection and the improvement of the earth's ecosystem in this article. According to them, retail can take some positive steps in this direction as well. The authors believe that the contribution of retailers to sustainable development is directly related to working with social responsibility. But, according to them, in this regard, there are some problems in the retail business in Georgia. According to the article's authors, Georgia's large retail enterprises more or less fulfill their purpose in ensuring sustainable development and are aware of their social responsibility to society. However, in the retail industry of Georgia, there are a large number of small enterprises, that, for some reason, consider social responsibility to be the business of large enterprises or do not understand the meaning of this concept at all. Therefore, according to the authors of the article, it is necessary to activate the work of relevant organizations and specialists in this direction. The governmental and non-governmental organizations of our country, as well as the mass media and representatives of science, should provide more information to the retail enterprises, the people employed there, about the necessity and benefits of working with social responsibility for the country, the planet, and the enterprises themselves. They should help the owners of small retail enterprises and the people employed there properly understand that working with social responsibility increases the image of enterprises in society. The final result of raising the image is the profitable operation of enterprises.
Without taking care of people's health, our country as a whole and, in particular, its economy cannot develop. Only healthy people are able to fully fulfill their duties towards society. Therefore, according to the authors of the article, people employed in all spheres of Georgia's economy, including the retail industry, should take care of people's health and well-being. Human health primarily depends on food, and food is mostly sold at retail. Providing the population with harmless products is the legal responsibility of the retailers. In Georgia, there are laws, regulations, and various rules, according to which retailers work. But, despite this, due to the gaps in the socially responsible thinking of our retailers, sometimes, they sell expired goods, they provide consumers with excessive information about the positive characteristics of the goods, they set an excessively high price mark for the products, etc. This indicates a deficit of socially responsible thinking among the retail enterprises working in the Georgian market, which must be corrected.
The article focuses on the possibility of retailers playing a certain role in the process of waste management. Retailers can recycle or hand over products to households before they become biodegradable waste. In this way, he will participate in environmental protection and promote sustainable consumption and production. Retailers should definitely use this opportunity.
The authors of the article focus on another way of working with social responsibility. They consider the retailer's assistance in the sale of products to socially responsible manufacturing enterprises as a manifestation of the retailer's social responsibility and as a contribution to achieving the goal of sustainable consumption and production.
The authors of the article believe that the coronavirus pandemic, from the point of view of sustainable development, has severely disrupted the work process of the Georgian economy. The situation was further aggravated by the war in Ukraine. Obviously, the problems arose primarily in health care. The coronavirus pandemic brought the problems in the healthcare field to the fore and made the public think about the need to find ways to solve them in a timely manner. According to the authors of the article, the pandemic's results are a good lesson for Georgian society and will help to solve problems in the health sector and activate the retail industry in this matter in the future.
Keywords: Retail, social responsibility, sustainable development, health, sustainable consumption and production.
JEL Codes: E21, E23, M14, Q0

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