{"id":15199,"date":"2021-07-16T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15199"},"modified":"2021-07-16T09:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:21:37","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/07\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 7-Eleven Inc.<\/strong> has expanded its Mobile Checkout contactless shopping feature to an additional 2,500 stores across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/t-CSG_Sales_Leads.aspx?utm_source=newsroom&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=inside_ad&amp;utm_content=Offthechain_Core_ad2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/morewaystoconnect2021_300x300.png\" alt=\"Free Trial\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022 Costco Wholesale Corp.<\/strong> announced it is eliminating its special operating hours, returning to pre-pandemic routines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Genoa Healthcare<\/strong> has provided more than 100,000 immunizations across 37 states, primarily to patients and staff at behavioral health centers and group homes, and plans to continue the service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Vera Bradley, Inc.<\/strong> reported that it plans to continue its in-person and virtual customer service and experience capabilities. First launched during the pandemic, customers can book time slots to shop in stores or virtually from home. They can also schedule curbside pickup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> reported it is now offering same-day delivery of prescription medications in nearly all store locations outside of California.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Fuddruckers<\/strong> has been sold by <strong>Luby&#8217;s Inc<\/strong>. to newly formed Black Titan Franchise Systems for $18.5 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Potbelly Corporation<\/strong> has made upgrades to their online ordering app that allows guests to easily re-order previously purchased items and they have added an entire catering menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong> 7-Eleven Inc.<\/strong> has expanded its Mobile Checkout contactless shopping feature to an additional 2,500 stores&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,11],"class_list":["post-15199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199","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=15199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}