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Walmart to Employ 150,000 Workers Due to the Coronavirus, Offers Cash Bonus
Walmart is giving its employees a one-time cash bonus to its workers, including the hourly workers and still hiring employees of 150,000 during the coronavirus pandemic, it announced on Thursday.
Walmart has just announced that it is giving $300 to its full-time employees whereas the part-time employees are going to receive $150 which will have a total of $365 million.
Those who are employed hourly in the stores, clubs, supply chain centers, and offices will all qualify. It will be released to them on April 2.
Furthermore, Walmart is also planning to give the employees their quarterly bonus earlier than the scheduled date.
These bonuses would be a help for them. Dan Bartlett, Walmart executive vice president of corporate affairs said they would be able to use “some extra cash at a time when many Americans are probably worried about where their next paycheck is coming from.”
He added, “They’re doing Herculean work in our stores and serving customers in frankly a tense environment.”
Aside from the bonuses, they will also hire 150,000 employees until the end of May in their stores, clubs and other distribution centers and fulfillment centers.
This may be initially temporary but may become permanent over time. They plan to hire different key roles such as cashiers and stockers by making the process from an average of two weeks to 24 hours.
“We believe there are multiple industries seeing acute pain and layoffs due to [coronavirus] already,” Bartlett said. Walmart hopes that this hiring will help the countrymen “contributes a bit to easing the pain of this broader economic downturn that the coronavirus is causing.”
Currently, the demand from shoppers has increased as there is more stocking up of food and other necessities in preparation for the wider coronavirus outbreak. Currently, the entire grocery industry is under an extreme amount of stress and they have been working well with their suppliers to help in keeping well-stocked shelves.
Moreover, they have foreseen an increase in online shoppers. The pickup service wherein the customers could order groceries ahead of time and pick up at their store has been “getting slammed” he added.
It even is comparable to the atmosphere at Walmart for the past couple of days to that White House during the September 11 attack saying “I was in the White House during the 9/11 days. The pace and complexity of issues are on par.”
There is also a talk between the federal government and Walmart, aside from keeping their shelves stocked, that it will set up a drive-thru coronavirus testing sites in their parking lot.
One of these will soon be open to the public within the next 72 hours. He mentioned also, “We have teams on the ground, we have tents, and everything’s ready. Once we figure out the supply issue, I think we’ll be off to the races.”
They are just awaiting on different medical resources like personal protection equipment and swabbing test kits to start with this new endeavor. Hopefully, this would fast track the identification of those infected with the virus.
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CROWN GOOSE LAUNCHES A 6 STAR HOTEL GRAND MERCURE ROOM PACKAGE
Asia’s one of most prominent Hotelplexes, Yongsan Dragon City Hotel Grand Mercure and global luxury goose down bedding brand Crown Goose collaborate to showcase Grand Mercure Crown Goose Suite Room Package from July 20th to August 31st.
Asia’s one of most prominent Hotelplexes, Yongsan Dragon City Hotel Grand Mercure and global luxury goose down bedding brand Crown Goose collaborate to showcase Grand Mercure Crown Goose Suite Room Package from July 20th to August 31st.
Yongsan Dragon City Hotel is a part of Accor Hotel Group from France, and is the largest hotel in Korea with 1,700 rooms, 11 restaurants and bars. The hotel can accommodate up to 4,900 people. Yongsan Dragon City includes four brands: Grand Mercure, Novotel Suites, Novotel Ambassador, and ibis Styles Ambassador.
Crown Goose Suite Room Package is located in Grand Mercure, known as a 6-star hotel from the Accor Hotel Group. Grand Mercure has upto 3 bedrooms, full kitchen facility, and indoor golf course and an access to executive floor lounge.
Grand Mercure’s Crown Goose package room is decorated with royal gold color, which symbolizes success, elegance, and royal authority. This Grand Mercure Suite room displays the top 0.05% of Crown Goose clients’ favorite bedding items. The room package also includes gift box of towel sets.
Crown Goose, a global eiderdown brand has showcased “Crown Goose Room Package” in Hilton hotels before. Hilton’s ocean suite room, the highest room in Hilton accommodated a number of celebrities.
Located in the heart of Beverly Hills, Crown Goose is a goose down brand loved by the world’s top clients and super riches. Crown Goose’s recent clients included New York Manhattan Super Rich’s Residence, 15 Hudson Yards and many Beverly Hills mansions. Thanks to these facts, Crown Goose has established itself as a high-end luxury goose down comforter among the wealthy.
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PENINSULA Unveils World’s First Official 8K Main Trailer!
(PRESSREELS) CONTENTS PANDA(Next Entertainment World), which presents PENINSULA released the world’s first official main trailer of 8K image quality at noon (Korean time) on June 16, 2020.
Four years after ‘TRAIN TO BUSAN’, Connect with the survivors of the ‘PENINSULA’!
(PRESSREELS) CONTENTS PANDA(Next Entertainment World), which presents PENINSULA released the world’s first official main trailer of 8K image quality at noon (Korean time) on June 16, 2020. The trailer of PENINSULA, a 2020 Cannes Film Festival’s official invitation film, depicts the struggles of those who have survived in different ways for four years after TRAIN TO BUSAN.
PENINSULA is an action blockbuster depicting the last battle for survival between the people left behind in the ruins of the Korean peninsula four years after Train to Busan. The upcoming PENINSULA trailer ahead of its worldwide premiere release in the summer of 2020 is full of such big scale action sequences and explosive thrills together with fast-sounding gunfights and car-chasing scenes.
In particular, the official trailer of PENINSULA, which has 8K image quality for the first time in the world, meets the technical specifications of all digital devices and delivers a high level of visual completeness to moviegoers around the world. The 8K trailer, which is 16 times clearer than the FULL HD image quality and 4 times clearer than the 4K image quality, can be enjoyed in 8K, 4K and HD according to the device’s specifications if the 8K main trailer via the NEW’s official channel on YouTube is selected as the highest specification (4320p 8K). Especially, viewers can watch them with a perfect picture quality without an extra setup from the YouTube app on Smart TVs that support either 4K or 8K.
This super high-definition trailer was created through the collaboration of NEW’s digital business corporation NEW ID and SK TELECOM. Among the media-focused core technologies of AI-based Post Production, a joint enterprise between the two companies, the technology called Supernova is a media upscaling solution (up to 8K) to improved quality of image and sound source based on the AI’s deep learning algorithms while maintaining the quality level of the original.
Movie Information
– Title: PENINSULA
– Director: YEON Sangho (Psychokinesis | Seoul Station | Train to Busan)
– Genre: Disaster, Zombie
– Cast: GANG Dongwon (Illang: The Wolf Brigade | A Violent Prosecutor)
LEE Junghyun (Love, Again | The Battleship Island)
– World Sales: CONTENTS PANDA (NEW)
– Production: REDPETER FILMS (Birthday | Psychokinesis | Train to Busan)
– Expected Release Date: Summer 2020
– Logline: 4 years after the inexplicable disaster, they’re returning to the godforsaken land!
– Synopsis
: Jung-seok barely managed to escape from the unprecedented disaster in Korea 4 years ago and lives in exile in Hong Kong by himself. He is given a lucrative chance to return to Korea to retrieve large bags of cash left abandoned in the streets of Seoul. His mission is infiltrated ruined city of Seoul and secure the target truck before the sunrise, then return to Hong Kong unscathed. But he and his team are ambushed by a militia known as Unit 631 and vicious zombie hordes. During his desperate struggle to survive, Jung-seok experiences a moment of deus ex machina as survivor Min-jung and her family save him from brink of death. Together, they formulate one last plan to escape the peninsula for good. The prodigal son, the survivor and the deranged, their bloody battle begins!
