Coronavirus - USA

Kroger Tests Contactless Payment Service In QFC Division

US retailer Kroger has announced that it is testing a contactless payment service in its QFC stores (Quality Food Centres) in Seattle, Washington. The p...

Major US Retailers Walmart, Kroger To Require Customers To Wear Masks

Walmart Inc, Kroger Co and Kohls Corp will require shoppers to wear face coverings starting next week, the retailers have said, imposing a widely-accepted...

Walgreens Swings To Loss On $2bn Impairment Charges At Boots UK

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc swung to a third-quarter loss, hammered by impairment charges of $2 billion (€1.76 billion) as the coronavirus crisis too...

Kroger's COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit Gets FDA Nod For Emergency Use

The healthcare unit of US supermarket chain Kroger Co has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration had issued emergency use authorisati...

Coronavirus Spreads Among Fruit And Vegetable Packers, Worrying US Officials

From apple packing houses in Washington state to farm workers in Florida and a California county known as 'the world's salad bowl,' outbreaks of the novel...

J.M. Smucker Forecasts Fiscal 2021 Sales To Decline Up To 2%

J.M. Smucker Co has forecast full-year sales to decrease 1% to 2%, citing weakness in sales to restaurants and schools even as the Jif peanut but...

Campbell Soup Raises 2020 Forecasts On Strong Sales In Pandemic

Campbell Soup Co raised its full-year profit and sales forecast after beating expectations for third-quarter results as consumers stocked up on soup,...

Hershey Says Mint, Gum Sales Hit As Lockdowns Restrict Social Gatherings

Hershey Co has said that sales of gums and mints have taken a hit as social distancing protocols spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic discouraged people from p...

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Coronavirus - USA

Kroger Tests Contactless Payment Service In QFC Division

Major US Retailers Walmart, Kroger To Require Customers To Wear Masks

Walgreens Swings To Loss On $2bn Impairment Charges At Boots UK

Kroger's COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit Gets FDA Nod For Emergency Use

Coronavirus Spreads Among Fruit And Vegetable Packers, Worrying US Officials

J.M. Smucker Forecasts Fiscal 2021 Sales To Decline Up To 2%

Campbell Soup Raises 2020 Forecasts On Strong Sales In Pandemic

Hershey Says Mint, Gum Sales Hit As Lockdowns Restrict Social Gatherings

Here's Why You Can't Find Frozen Fries, While US Farmers Are Sitting On Tonnes Of Potatoes

Kraft Heinz Extends Factory Worker Bonuses In Pandemic

Coronavirus Forces Tyson Foods To Shutter Its Largest US Pork Plant

Kimberly-Clark's Tissue Sales Surge 13%, Suspends Annual Forecast

General Mills Launches ‘Manufacture To Donate’ Initiative

Beer May Lose Its Fizz As CO2 Supplies Go Flat During Pandemic

Costco Bucks Dividend Suspension Trend With Near 8% Raise