Coronavirus

Industries all across the country are experiencing the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Discover how it could affect the U.S. foodservice, grocery and convenience industries.


One Way Is the New Way In-Store

To help customers keep to social distancing practices, retailers are converting aisles to one direction.

FMI Launches Job Board for Furloughed Employees

Through partnership with Eightfold.ai, the association looks to rapidly match demand and supply of front-line workers in local areas.

Measures in at least four states would require insurers to drop pandemic exemptions retroactively.

At a time when restaurants need delivery most, their relationship with delivery providers is becoming increasingly fraught.

QuikTrip, Casey's, Kum & Go, Alltown Fresh among chains adding new services

The Canadian-based brand collector, which operates Cold Stone Creamery and Pinkberry, among many others, has temporarily closed 2,100 locations.

The insurance provider has teamed up with a local organization to help prepare meals for area seniors.

Understanding shifting consumer purchase behavior in the current COVID-19 landscape is "incredibly important to understand what’s next."

Workers staged a walkout and filed complaints after an employee became sick.

Allegro Merger Corp., citing “extraordinary” conditions, opted not to merge with the bar and grill chain.

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, foodservice teams are cooking up fresh ways to connect with diners.

WGB's April editor's letter charts the grocery industry's rapid response to the coronavirus crisis that has thrust the world into unprecedented times and unchartered waters.

As the industry confronts its greatest challenge, we promise to be here for restaurants, their operators and their employees.

Analyst says immediate-consumption channels, including c-stores, saw softer growth

Like other activities, holiday meals are pivoting to accommodate social distancing and lockdown guidelines.

The online grocery delivery company will distribute the free kits, which include face masks, hand sanitizer and thermometers, to its contract workers in the wake of COVID-19.

The omnichannel retailer is developing robots to aid detection and disinfection amid the coronavirus crisis, and it plans to sell them online.

New federal data shows more than half of job losses last month, though it doesn’t reflect late-month layoffs.

Restaurants spent too many years loading up on debt and dumping assets, and now those decisions are coming home to roost, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

Retailers are adding more cleaning products, ready-to-heat meals, bulk items amid COVID-19 crisis

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