{"id":15716,"date":"2021-12-30T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15716"},"modified":"2021-12-30T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:06:19","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-51\/","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 Sheetz Inc.<\/strong> has entered into a partnership with DoorDash to provide on-demand delivery of its products.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Apple Inc.<\/strong> has temporarily closed three retail stores in the U.S. and Canada after a rise in employee COVID-19 cases and exposures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd.<\/strong> is deploying smart in-store contactless product retrieval lockers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 JCPenney Company, Inc.<\/strong> is now partnering with on-demand delivery platform DoorDash to offer same-day delivery of select online orders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.,<\/strong> <strong>CVS Health<\/strong>, <strong>Rite Aid Corporation<\/strong>, and <strong>Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> announced that they are limiting purchases of at-home COVID-19 tests as demand surges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Union Square Hospitality Group<\/strong> has temporarily closed 7 restaurants and the company will be requiring COVID-19 booster shots for all employees and diners starting Jan. 24th.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Washington D.C., Chicago, and Boston have joined New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to eat at restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apple Inc.<\/strong> has temporarily closed three retail stores in the U.S. and Canada after a rise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15719,"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-15716","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\/15716","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=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}