{"id":14653,"date":"2021-02-19T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=14653"},"modified":"2021-02-19T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:09:10","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/02\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co<\/strong>. plans to offer the first smartphone-enabled, at-home COVID-19 rapid test kit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co<\/strong>. plans to close two Quality Food Centers Seattle stores, citing a municipal ordinance that mandates hazard pay for frontline grocery store workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Jo-Ann Stores Inc<\/strong>. has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Rite Aid Corporation<\/strong> announced that all of its drive-thru locations are offering no-charge COVID-19 testing. Additionally, Rite Aid is participating in the federal retail pharmacy program, offering COVID-19 vaccines in five states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Sam\u2019s Club<\/strong> is rolling out an in-house developed, automated health screening kiosk for employees designed to enable a safer, quicker and more reliable COVID-19 screening procedure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. more than doubled its number of personal shoppers in the last year and now has more than 170,000 of these workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/..\/t-CSG_Sales_Leads.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"\/email\/Offthechain_Core_ad.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u2022\u00a0BJ&#8217;s Restaurant<\/strong> is testing a new virtual kitchen called Slo Roast in California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Bloomin&#8217; Brands Inc<\/strong>. has expanded virtual brand Tender Shack to locations across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Denny&#8217;s Corporation<\/strong> is planning to launch two new virtual brands called The Burger Den and The Melt Down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Dine Brands Global, Inc<\/strong>. has launched a virtual restaurant concept called Cosmic Wings that is operating out of <strong>Applebee&#8217;s<\/strong> kitchens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Dog Haus International LLC<\/strong> has opened a new location in Austin, TX. that is offering delivery and pickup orders only. The new location will also feature items from the restaurants\u2019 three ghost kitchen brands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Inspire Brands<\/strong> is opening a new ghost kitchen location in Atlanta under the name of Alliance Kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store \u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co. plans to offer the first smartphone-enabled, at-home COVID-19 rapid test kit. \u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co. plans to close two Quality Food Centers Seattle stores, citing a municipal ordinance that mandates hazard pay for frontline grocery store workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. \u00a0 Retail \u2022\u00a0Jo-Ann Stores Inc. has filed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/02\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2021<\/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-14653","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\/14653","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=14653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}