A few things we are hearing:
Grocers are creatively tailoring
their community support
Senior Shopping Hours- first hour or two of opening:
within a few short days this is now a very common practice across stores of all sizes
Free Deliveries:
often with low minimum orders & flexibility to meet customer needs
Online orders:
for curbside pick up
Limit product quantities
to spread out supply
Family size meals
rather than single serve to make the most of limited deli help & use their cafe capacity - with lots of great comfort food
Expanded bulk/case purchasing
promoting more food less shopping
Increasing local deliveries
helping local produce & meat producers who can no longer sell at farmers markets
Fewer hand stacked produce displays
to reduce customer contact
Creating online ordering platforms
that foster pre-orders limiting customer ins-store visits
Focused ordering from suppliers
on high-value products
Staff support
& extended time off for employees
Shortened hours,
closed certain days or hours for restocking
