{"id":14703,"date":"2021-03-12T09:16:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=14703"},"modified":"2021-03-12T09:16:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:16:34","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/03\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/..\/t-CSG_Sales_Leads.aspx?utm_source=newsroom&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=inside_ad&amp;utm_content=Offthechain_Core_ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/Offthechain_Core_ad.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u2022\u00a0Albertsons LLC<\/strong> announced it has surpassed the 1 million mark in COVID-19 vaccines administered by its pharmacy teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Cardinal Health Inc<\/strong>. has distributed millions of at-home COVID-19 rapid tests to pharmacies across the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc<\/strong>. is offering COVID-19 vaccines at its pharmacies in Florida and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Safeway Inc<\/strong>. is piloting a remote-controlled grocery delivery cart in Northern California with automated logistics specialist Tortoise. The cart provides a contactless solution for last-mile delivery of online grocery orders. Equipped with a camera and a speaker, the electric-powered cart is guided through the neighborhood by a remote operator.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Costco Wholesale Corp<\/strong>. is testing curbside pickup at three locations in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation<\/strong> and <strong>Loblaw Companies Limited<\/strong> pharmacies have begun delivering their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Target Corporation<\/strong> is now offering the COVID-19 vaccine through its partnership with <strong>CVS Health<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance<\/strong>,<strong> Inc<\/strong>. announced that it has provided 5 million COVID-19 vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 El Pollo Loco <\/strong>has finished remodeling 3 stores that are part of their long-term plan to remodel over 300 locations. The new store designs were created with COVID-19 in mind and focus on digital ordering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 MooYah Burgers &amp; Fries <\/strong>will be launching their first drive-thru location later this year. When the pandemic hit, the company revamped their digital ordering platform and began planning drive-thru locations that were originally slated to open in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Red Robin Gourmet Burgers &amp; Spirits<\/strong> has launched three delivery-only virtual brands that will not feature burgers. The brands are named Chicken Sammy\u2019s, The Wing Dept., and Fresh Set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Steak &#8216;n Shake<\/strong> is opening 45 locations that were temporarily closed due to a combination of poor service and COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store \u2022\u00a0Albertsons LLC announced it has surpassed the 1 million mark in COVID-19 vaccines administered by its pharmacy teams. \u2022 Cardinal Health Inc. has distributed millions of at-home COVID-19 rapid tests to pharmacies across the United States. \u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc. is offering COVID-19 vaccines at its pharmacies in Florida and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/03\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-11\/\">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-14703","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\/14703","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=14703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}