{"id":15264,"date":"2021-08-06T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15264"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:37:38","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/08\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-32\/","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 The Kroger Co<\/strong>. announced it is changing its mask policies due to the COVID -19 Delta variant.<\/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 The Home Depot Inc<\/strong>., <strong>Target Corporation<\/strong> and <strong>Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced they are changing their mask policies due to the latest CDC recommendations and the COVID -19 Delta variant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Lamps Plus<\/strong> is hiring sales associates to serve dual roles as both retail store associates and customer care agents for phone and online chats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <\/strong>New York City announced it will require customers to prove they have been vaccinated in order to enter gyms, restaurants and indoor entertainment venues beginning Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. said it has now administered more than 29 million COVID-19 vaccinations. The company is requiring its team members to wear face coverings and is mandating that its office staff be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. is making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for its entire headquarters staff. The retailer will require all employees at its offices to be vaccinated by Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <\/strong>New York City has issued a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all workers and diners within the city limits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Papa John&#8217;s Pizza<\/strong> is looking hire 20,000 new team members across 800 region hiring events amid the national labor shortage caused by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Raising Cane&#8217;s Chicken Fingers<\/strong> has added college tuition assistance to their available employee benefits in an attempt to attract and retain talent during the labor shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. is making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for its entire headquarters staff. The retailer will require&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15270,"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-15264","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\/15264","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=15264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}