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Kroger is giving its employees access to an at-home COVID-19 testing kit. Employees will video chat with a medical professional while taking the test to ensure proper sample collection. Employees will then send the test sample to a lab via overnight shipping, and receive results within 24 to 48 hours. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Kroger is giving its employees access to...

More than 200 people who visited a Planet Fitness gym in Morgantown, West Virginia, may have been exposed to COVID-19, local health officials said.  Planet Fitness shares fell as much as 6% following a report on potential exposure.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Health officials say more than 200 people may have been exposed to COVID-19 at a Planet Fitness gym in...

Nordstrom shut all its stores on Sunday due to protests and looting. The department store chain, which has 378 locations, had recently started reopening its stores following weeks of forced closures amid the pandemic. Some Nordstrom stores were looted over the weekend, and the company said it wanted to "take the time to assess the damage, repair and reopen those stores so we can...

Looters ransacked a Target store in Minneapolis this week amid protests against the death of George Floyd. Photos of the aftermath show widespread damage and flooding. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. A Minneapolis Target store was destroyed by looting this week. Photos of the store in the aftermath of the looting show overturned beverage coolers, flooding, and broken windows, shelves, and cash...

The novel coronavirus is crippling department stores, leading to a rash of bankruptcies and store closings.  Malls will struggle to find replacement tenants for the large, multi-story buildings — known as anchor stores — that department stores occupy, at a time when most businesses are halting store growth. "We expect to see a lot of the space that goes vacant remain vacant for extended...

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is requesting that customers wear masks in its stores, the companies said Thursday.  Whole Foods will provide free, disposable masks to all customers at store entrances within the next week. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Amazon-owned Whole Foods will soon provide free, disposable masks to customers visiting its stores, the companies said Thursday.  Whole Foods also said it will...

Walmart will require all US employees to wear face masks starting on Monday.  The company will also encourage customers to wear masks or other facial coverings while shopping. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Walmart will require all 1.5 million of its United States employees to wear face masks starting Monday, the company said in a memo sent to stores late Friday.  "We...

Amazon-owned Whole Foods offers no paid parental leave to employees. In interviews with Business Insider, nine current and former corporate Whole Foods employees described the lack of paid leave for new mothers as alarming. "I can't tell you how many crying mothers I spoke to who were completely shocked by the benefits," said one former human resources employee. Whole Foods said employees can use...

Some Amazon drivers have said they want customers to stop greeting them face-to-face amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control has said that the novel coronavirus is thought to spread mainly through respiratory droplets and between people in close contact, which is defined as within a distance of six feet. One driver said customers should refrain from opening their doors during deliveries....

Walmart is cutting operating hours at thousands of stores to give employees additional time to restock shelves and clean amid the coronavirus outbreak, the company said Saturday. "Unless they already have more reduced hours, stores will be open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. until further notice," the company said in a statement. The changes will affect about 2,200 of Walmart's 4,700 stores in...

Photos of a UPS driver's encounter with two goats on his delivery route are going viral on social media. One of the driver's daughters, Maria Slette, tweeted photos of the encounter on Wednesday, writing: "My dad is a UPS driver in rural North Dakota & today he sent me these photos with no context." "My dad has been a UPS driver for over 30...

A new report reveals the fastest growing brands of 2019. DoorDash, White Claw, Amazon Prime, and Impossible Foods are among the brands that made the list. Sign up for Business Insider's retail newsletter, The Drive-Thru. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. A new report reveals the 20 fastest growing brands that have seen the biggest jump in purchasing consideration this year. DoorDash, White...

Kroger will stop selling all vaping products, the company said Monday.  Kroger cited regulatory concerns as the reason for stopping the sale of e-cigarettes. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Kroger said Monday that it would stop selling all vaping products. "Kroger is discontinuing the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products, or e-cigarettes, at all store and fuel center locations due to the...

Walmart e-commerce CEO Marc Lore on Monday addressed "frustration and tension" between himself and Greg Foran, the company's head of stores.  "Greg's a great operator, and they're generating a lot of cash," Lore said during a live interview at Recode's CodeCommerce conference in New York. "Over on the e-commerce side, we're investing in it, we're losing money, and we're taking a bet on the...

Walmart corporate employee Thomas Marshall on Tuesday emailed a petition with more than 128,000 signatures to the company's CEO, Doug McMillon, demanding that Walmart stop selling guns and ammunition. "Customers no longer feel as safe as they once did in our stores," Marshall wrote in a message accompanying the petition.  Marshall is a Walmart e-commerce employee based in San Bruno, California, who helped organize...