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The Kroger Co. is doubling down on its efforts to reward its frontline employees working during the COVID-19 crisis.

With COVID-19 changing the way many retailers operate their stores and distribution centers, tech providers are offering innovative solutions designed to reduce the risk of infection.

The Kroger Co. has hired 100,000 employees during the past eight weeks, adding to the 460,000 workers the grocer had before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dallas-based Pie Five Pizza is reopening with new operational procedures to ensure the safety customers and employees and team members while inside its restaurants.

A discount giant is preventing opioid overdoses and misuse with digital information.

Walmart Inc. is rewarding its employees with a second cash bonus — bringing its total bonus payouts to $935 million — as it continues to keep up with demand amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Join Steve Kramer, CEO of WorkJam, for a webinar on Tuesday, May 19 at 3 p.m. ET to learn how leading retailers are preparing to reopen their stores as retail’s response to the pandemic moves into a critical phase.

Grocery retailers and their employees have fast become some of the most essential service providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.