{"id":15320,"date":"2021-08-20T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15320"},"modified":"2021-08-20T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:49:01","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/08\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/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 Kroger Co<\/strong>. has partnered with Google to offer pickup service functionality through the company\u2019s Maps app across 96 stores in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Customers can add their order to Google Maps, it will remind them when it\u2019s time to go to the store and then share their arrival time with the retailer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc<\/strong>. has begun providing Pfizer\/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations in Florida to people ages 12 and older.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart Canada<\/strong> announced it will hold a \u201cVax-a-thon\u201d event to help more Canadians get vaccinated against COVID-19. Starting Aug. 19, vaccines will be available on a walk-in basis at more than 250 Walmart Canada pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Brinker International Inc.<\/strong> has launched delivery-only virtual brand Maggiano\u2019s Italian Classics. The company launched their first brand, It\u2019s Just Wings, last year in response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Kroger Co<\/strong>. has partnered with Google to offer pickup service functionality through the company\u2019s Maps app across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15327,"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-15320","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\/15320","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=15320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}