Need a little extra incentive to get your COVID shot? Businesses nationwide, including some in Cleveland, are offering free or cheap stuff for people who get vaccinated, according to this article from The New York Times.
The perks, the Times says, "include free rides, doughnuts, money, arcade tokens and even marijuana."
In Cleveland, the Market Garden Brewery is offering 10-cent beers to the first 2021 people who show a COVID-19 vaccine certificate. ("Yes, you read that right," the brewery says on its website. "Ten Cents.") The Cleveland Cinemas chain of movie theaters, meanwhile, is offering a free 44-ounce popcorn at two of its locations — the Cedar Lee in Cleveland Heights and Chagrin Cinemas in Chagrin Falls — to anyone who presents a vaccination card through April 30.
The Times notes that in behavioral motivation "offering incentives is not necessarily the most effective or cost-efficient way to increase vaccine uptake. But that hasn't stopped the freebies from piling up."
Among them: Chobani's providing free yogurt at some vaccination sites. Krispy Kreme says that for the rest of the year it will give one glazed doughnut per day to anyone who provides proof of a COVID-19 vaccination. Walled Lake, a medical marijuana dispensary in Michigan, will give anyone 21 and over who gets a COVID vaccine a prerolled joint until the end of the month.
Perks aren't all customer-focused, as the Times says some vaccine swag will "flow from corporations to their employees." Tyson Foods, Trader Joe's and others pay for the time it takes them to get vaccinated, while Kroger pays them a $100 bonus.
• If you're still feeling a lot of stress, you have quite a bit of company in Cleveland, according to this list of the most-stressed cities in American compiled by JustGreatLawyers.com. The website says it recently surveyed about 2,700 people in 25 major U.S. cities "to learn more about all the things that stress them out in 2021." The leading sources of stress, in order: money, work, rising cost of health care, family relationships and romantic relationships. Cleveland ranked as the ninth most-stressed city, according to the calculations. (Weirdly, it was the second least-stressed city over money and finances.) The top five cities for stress: Indianapolis, Houston, Washington, D.C., Nashville and New Orleans.
• The J.M. Smucker Co. of Orrville and JDE Peet's of The Netherlands are forming a partnership in which Peet's will support Smucker's Away From Home liquid coffee business, Food Business News reports. It notes that the Smucker's Away From Home business serves business, institutional and foodservice customers. As part of the partnership, Peet's will provide product development, production and foodservice equipment innovation, according to the company. In conjunction with the partnership announcement, Smucker plans to close and pursue the sale of its Suffolk, Va., coffee production plant by spring 2022. The plant serves the company's liquid coffee business within Smucker's International and Away From Home business unit.
• Ronnie Dunn, an urban studies professor at Cleveland State University, is quoted in this Washington Post article about the pace of shooting deaths in America. The piece starts this way: Until two lethal rampages this month, mass shootings had largely been absent from headlines during the coronavirus pandemic. But people were still dying — at a record rate. In 2020, gun violence killed nearly 20,000 Americans, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, more than any other year in at least two decades. An additional 24,000 people died by suicide with a gun. The Post says shooting deaths in 2020 "outpaced the next-highest recent year, 2017, by more than 3,600." Gunshot injuries also rose dramatically, to nearly 40,000, over 8,000 more than in 2017. "More than 100 Americans are killed daily by gun violence," says Dunn, using a figure that includes suicides. "The majority are in Black and Brown communities. We don't really focus on gun violence until we have these mass shootings, but it's an ongoing, chronic problem that affects a significant portion of our society."
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March 26, 2021 at 01:28AM
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