{"id":14183,"date":"2020-09-25T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:10:48","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2020-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/09\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2020-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022<\/span>\u00a07-Eleven Inc.<\/strong> announced it plans to hire more than 20,000 new workers to meet continued demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Meijer Inc.<\/strong> is offering customers text-accessible pharmacy customer experience. The new contactless pharmacy tool can manage prescriptions, schedule vaccinations and allow customers to fill out required forms.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Southeastern Grocers<\/strong> has teamed up with Uber to offer online grocery delivery service in Florida through its Cornershop-powered e-grocery marketplace.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0CVS Health<\/strong> is adding more than 2,000 new COVID-19 drive-thru test sites. The company expects to have more than 4,000 operating by mid-October.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0It\u2019Sugar<\/strong> has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing the effects of the pandemic. The retailer plans to continue to operate its stores while the bankruptcy proceedings are ongoing.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Lowe’s Companies Inc.<\/strong> is adding pickup lockers at all U.S. stores. The retailer will install the self-service lockers for buy-online-pickup-in-store orders by the end of March 2021, but plans to have the lockers installed in most major metro markets by Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Sam’s Club<\/strong> plans to roll out its contactless Scan & Go Fuel feature to clubs across the country by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> is using drone delivery to send at-home COVID-19 self-collection kits through a partnership with Quest Diagnostics and DroneUp.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> plans to hire more than 20,000 seasonal associates in its e-commerce fulfillment centers across the country.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0CEC Entertainment Inc.<\/strong> is getting rid of their paper tickets and moving towards eTickets. The move was prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the company will be destroying more than 7 billion paper tickets.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Luby’s Inc.<\/strong> CEO Christopher Pappas is considering buying some assets of the company. Luby\u2019s is planning a full liquidation of its assets pending shareholder approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a07-Eleven Inc. announced it plans to hire more than 20,000 new workers to meet continued demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic. \u2022\u00a0Meijer Inc. is offering customers text-accessible pharmacy customer experience. The new contactless pharmacy tool can manage prescriptions, schedule vaccinations and allow customers to fill out required forms. \u2022\u00a0Southeastern Grocers has teamed… 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-14183","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\/14183","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=14183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}