{"id":15437,"date":"2021-09-24T14:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15437"},"modified":"2021-09-24T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:03:42","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/09\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-39\/","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><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Giant Food LLC<\/strong> has reduced or eliminated fees and order minimums for purchases made through its websites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0H-E-B<\/strong> announced a partnership with James Avery Craftsman Inc., opening a 1,650 sq. ft. store-in-store in Texas. The retailer plans to open two additional in-store James Avery locations this month and plans to continue opening them amid elevated jewelry sales during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Bed Bath &amp; Beyond Inc<\/strong>. is now offering same-day delivery, within an hour on average, with DoorDash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Hy-Vee Inc<\/strong>. announced plans to hire 2,000 new pharmacy technicians as the retailer expands its capacity to provide COVID-19 vaccination boosters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Pizza Hut<\/strong> is looking to hire an additional 40,000 new permanent employees by the end of the year as the restaurant industry battles a labor shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pizza Hut<\/strong> is looking to hire an additional 40,000 new permanent employees by the end of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15440,"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-15437","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\/15437","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=15437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}