{"id":15389,"date":"2021-09-10T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15389"},"modified":"2021-09-10T09:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:17:55","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/09\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Costco Wholesale Corp<\/strong>. has reinstated purchase limits on some products as people are stockpiling again due to COVID-19 infections climbing in the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. reported it will raise its minimum hourly wage for store employees from $11 to $12 this month. More than 565,000 workers will receive raises of at least $1 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Greens Restaurant Group LLC<\/strong> CEO Jonathan Neman has publicly apologized for recent comments he made that were deemed insensitive and false. Neman placed the blame of COVID-19 on obesity and called for health mandates while claiming masks and vaccines would not save people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart<\/strong> has announced a partnership with Ghost Kitchen Brands that will add delivery only restaurants to select Walmart stores. Customers will order from a kiosk within the store and be notified when their food is ready for pickup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Costco Wholesale Corp<\/strong>. has reinstated purchase limits on some products as people are stockpiling again due to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15402,"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-15389","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\/15389","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=15389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}