• Updated on December 11, 2020 at 9:29 am
  • Category Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2020

Retail

 Amazon.com Inc. has limited the amount of warehouse space available to 3rd party companies in an effort prevent shortages of Amazon products due to high digital shopping demand from COVID-19.

 Chewy.com saw a 45% growth in revenue last quarter and their sales have been driven up due to shopping changes stemming from COVID-19.

 Best Buy will be providing vehicles to employees that can deliver online orders personally to consumers. The additional delivery system will help them compete with competitors during a high volume digital shopping season due to Coronavirus.

 Designer Brands Inc. could close as many as 80 stores next year due to lease negotiation complications from the pandemic.

 Francesca’s Holdings Corp. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to close 97 stores due to complication from COVID-19.

 

Restaurant

 Corner Bakery Café has launched a new curbside pick-up program to help overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Five Guys Burgers and Fries now has in-store pick-up and curbside options at all of their locations. Curbside pick-up has seen substantial growth since this year.

 Grubhub has introduced new tools for restaurants on their platform that will reduce marketing fees. The change is likely a response to criticism over the high fees that restaurants had to pay in March.

 The Cheesecake Factory will pay a $125,000 settlement to the SEC after they failed to disclose the impact of COVID-19 on their business.

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