{"id":14105,"date":"2020-09-11T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=14105"},"modified":"2020-09-11T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:19:08","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2020-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/09\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2020-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022<\/span> Albertsons LLC<\/strong> is expanding its pharmacy-delivered immunization practice to serve children as young as age 3. The retailer will begin offering at-home COVID-19 test kits in select market areas.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Giant Eagle<\/strong> is offering a checkout-free experience at its Pittsburgh-area location.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Rouses Enterprises LLC<\/strong> plans to test drone grocery delivery service at a Rouses Market store in Mobile, AL.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Thorntons LLC<\/strong> hosted its first ever drive-thru hiring event for its east end Louisville, KY, convenience stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Whole Foods Market Inc.<\/strong> will offer grocery pick up from 480 stores by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022<\/span> 1-800 FLOWERS.com Inc.<\/strong> is planning to hire more than 10,000 seasonal employees, quadrupling its holiday season workforce.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Amazon.com Inc.<\/strong> will host its 2020 Career Day on September 16. This year it will be a virtual event.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> H&M, Primark, and Zara<\/strong> will open their stores at American Dream, the New Jersey mega-mall, on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Lululemon<\/strong> Athletica Inc.<\/strong> is opening 20 more seasonal pop-ups this year than normal. It\u2019s also launched a virtual waitlist to eliminate the lines that often form outside its stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Michaels Stores Inc.<\/strong> plans to hire over 16,000 seasonal positions to strengthen its buy-online, pickup in-store team in preparation for the 2020 holiday season.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Scheels Sports<\/strong> is equipping its store associates with a mobile POS\/CRM solution, the Oracle Cloud POS system.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> launched a pilot program to offer grocery delivery by drone from a Fayetteville, NC, store.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022<\/span> Chick-fil-A Inc.<\/strong> is expanding their menu instead of trimming it like their competitors. The chain has added two new types of coffee and a dessert brownie to their menu.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Coolgreens<\/strong> will open a franchised virtual kitchen in Orlando this October followed by a physical location next year. This will be the brand\u2019s first virtual kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc.<\/strong> is now offering to deliver premium cuts of meat and pre-cooked sides straight to consumers. These grocery store style offerings are part of the company\u2019s COVID-19 recovery plan.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> <\/strong>New York City is planning to re-open indoor dinning on September 30th<\/sup>. The restaurants will be allowed to reopen at 25% capacity and the local government will reassess the situation in November to consider allowing 50% capacity.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Roy Rogers Restaurants <\/strong>is now offering delivery through Uber Eats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 Albertsons LLC is expanding its pharmacy-delivered immunization practice to serve children as young as age 3. The retailer will begin offering at-home COVID-19 test kits in select market areas. \u2022 Giant Eagle is offering a checkout-free experience at its Pittsburgh-area location. \u2022 Rouses Enterprises LLC plans to test drone grocery… 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-14105","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\/14105","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=14105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}