Stadiums Experiment with Lowering Food and Beverage Prices
The Tampa Bay Lightning announced they would be lowering prices on food and drink options in Amelie Arena for the 2020 season. Prices would be reduced by an average of…
Crisis Hits Farmers: Some face labor shortages, others face customer shortages
US agriculture is suffering major setbacks related to the Coronavirus outbreak. Stay-at-home orders have caused a significant decline in restaurant business, forcing many to temporarily close or cut down to…
Innovative Ways some Restaurants are responding to COVID-19
The restaurant and service industries in our nation have been severely impacted by COVID-19. The Food Action Policy released a detailed blog regarding ways Congress can assist the restaurant industry…
Breweries and Distilleries Produce Hand Sanitizer to Relieve Shortage
The global spread of the Coronavirus led to a surge in demand for a number of goods including toilet paper, disinfectant wipes, and hand sanitizer. Many people worried about future…
CNN: “Why Walmart is seeing increased sales for tops, but not bottoms during the coronavirus crisis”
As more people engage in “teleworking” from home due to being on lockdown due to COVID-19, sales of tops have increased – since that’s all that shows on the webcam.…
The New York Times: “America Stress-Bought All the Baby Chickens”
Sales of baby chicks often rise before Easter, but this year’s increase has been extraordinary due to a variety of factors influenced by COVID-19: people are staying home with time…
Drive-In Movie Theater Popularity Surges Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Don’t call it a comeback! Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, certain markets will see expansions and others will see contractions. We already see contraction and a reduction in economic activity in…
Ways Small Businesses Can Survive COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting businesses large and small. Several economists are declaring that a recession is on the horizon. A recessionis a business cycle contraction when there is a…
The Gig Economy, Health Coverage, and COVID-19
In strenuous times, new economies often emerge and grow. The Great Recession lasted from the late 2000s to the early 2010s. Since 2010, CNBC reports that the gig economy has…
Demand for Hand Sanitizer Skyrockets by More than 1,000 Percent
Last week (see From the News to The Classroom blog site) we looked at how fears over coronavirus have caused major events to cancel and governments to restrict travel. Since…