{"id":14047,"date":"2020-08-28T08:59:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=14047"},"modified":"2020-08-28T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:59:32","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2020-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/08\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2020-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Ahold-Delhaize<\/strong> has partnered with Instacart to offer same-day delivery from all its Hannaford store locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0ExxonMobil <\/strong>and Shell<\/strong> are integrating their fuel payments capabilities with the Waze app. Drivers using Waze in the United States will be able to link from Waze to fuel partner apps for contactless payments at participating Exxon, Mobil and Shell stations.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Hy-Vee Inc.<\/strong> has initiated free drive-thru coronavirus testing at 11 of its pharmacy locations across its eight-state trade area.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0The Kroger Co. <\/strong>is expanding COVID-19 testing at more than 220 clinic locations by appointment.<\/p>\n

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Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Apple Inc.<\/strong> plans to start reopening U.S. retail stores that had been closed over the past several weeks due to local COVID-19 spikes.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Best Buy Co. Inc.<\/strong> will start testing a ship-from-store hub model next month. About 250 stores will be specially designated to handle a higher volume of packages, though all stores ship online orders.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0BJ\u2019s Wholesale Club Inc.<\/strong> has launched contactless curbside pickup service at all of its store locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0CVS Health<\/strong> expanded its COVID-19 testing program by deploying 77 additional test sites at select CVS Pharmacy drive-thru locations across Florida.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Tailored Brands, Inc.<\/strong> is now offering buy-online-pickup-in-store service nationwide at its Men\u2019s Wearhouse and Jos A Bank stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0The Vitamin Shoppe<\/strong> is partnering with Instacart on same-day delivery in as fast as one hour from 720 of its locations across the nation.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> plans to extend hours at about 85% of its stores, which had curtailed hours of operation at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Restaurant<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Buffalo Wings & Rings LLC <\/strong>will unveil its new redesigned restaurant and bar concept in September. The new design will make it easier for customers to order to-go through a valet pick-up service.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Chipotle Mexican Grill<\/strong> has been named CSG\u2019s Top Innovator of 2020<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Domino’s Pizza<\/strong> is releasing two new permanent pizza items themed around cheeseburgers and chicken tacos. The new items were inspired by the delivery rush of the pandemic and represent the company\u2019s first new pizza items since 2012.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0McDonald’s Corporation<\/strong> is launching a new McNuggets flavor and McFlurry flavor that will be available for a limited time. This is the first new McNuggets flavor since the company introduced the item and they are the first new items added since McDonald\u2019s began simplifying the menu due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Panera Bread<\/strong> has launched a new partnership with Google that will leverage the company\u2019s technology to allow customers to order delivery and curbside pick-up through Google\u2019s platforms. The move will give customers more options as Panera focuses on off premise sales following COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Ahold-Delhaize has partnered with Instacart to offer same-day delivery from all its Hannaford store locations. \u2022\u00a0ExxonMobil and Shell are integrating their fuel payments capabilities with the Waze app. Drivers using Waze in the United States will be able to link from Waze to fuel partner apps for contactless payments at participating… Continue reading Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-14047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}