According to a 2017 report by the National Grocers Association, approximately 18. 9 million pies are sold each Thanksgiving. The chances that Jerry Brimeyer’s mother was responsible for even a single one of those purchases are slim to none. When...
With 30% of U. S. adults now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, public health officials are starting to see a decline in uptake. The average number of daily shots has fallen by 20% from its peak of 3. 4 million earlier...
NEW YORK (AP) — In November, Paula Mont did something new: The 86-year-old, who hasn't left her New Jersey senior living community in nearly a year, went shopping — online. Mont used an iPad, equipped with a stylus to help...
As panicked Americans cleared supermarkets of toilet paper and food last spring, grocery employees gained recognition as among the most indispensable of the pandemic's front-line workers. A year later, most of those workers are waiting their turn to receive COVID-19...
NEW YORK (AP) — When ride-hailing heavyweights Uber and Lyft and delivery giants Grubhub and Instacart began making shared rides and meals available with a few taps on a smartphone, they transformed the way people work, travel and get food...
Sara Buie lined up a summer lifeguard job to help pay for a new laptop, textbooks and a backpack for her freshman year at Virginia's James Madison University. But the coronavirus pandemic closed her community pool. She tried offering online...
NEW YORK (AP) — There were the two-hour, unpaid waits outside supermarkets when San Francisco first started to lock down, on top of the heavy shopping bags that had to be lugged up countless flights of stairs. And yet even...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Amazon has spent years honing the business of packing, shipping and delivering millions of products to doorsteps around the world. Now it has a captive audience. With much of the globe in various stages of a lockdown...
