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Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the best-selling video game in March after its release that month, according to the NPD Group, Inc., a market research company. Jess Tompkins, a user experience researcher for Electronic Arts and recent IU Ph.D. graduate, suggests the reason was quarantine.
IU’s Kelley School of Business launched the Kelley Hoosiers Online Professional Engagement Digital Project last week to offer free help to small Indiana businesses with online operations during the pandemic.
With the university undecided on whether classes will be in person or online in the fall, many apartment and housing agencies with students for tenants in Bloomington have yet to make a statement on leasing agreements.
Less than an hour after opening Saturday, the second-story patio at Brothers Bar and Grill was already at its new capacity.
Luke Rhodes, an owner of Rhodes Family Farm and a Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market vendor, has been running out of meat products since the pandemic started, and he’s not sure why.
With a global lockdown, the environment saw a reduction in air pollution, a slowdown in renewable energy production growth and decreasing fossil fuel sales according to various reports. As cities reopen, the future of the environment is up for speculation.
His days start at 6 a.m., when he starts taking orders through the apps.
Many Monroe County businesses will be able to open this Friday after the county's extended stay-at-home order ends May 15. Stage 2 of Gov. Gov. Eric Holcomb’s five-step plan to reopen the economy amid the pandemic will begin 11 days after most of the state.
Upland Brewing Company was in the Facebook spotlight after a letter to laid-off employees outlining the re-hiring process was posted and sparked anger among community members and past employees.
The school year was cut short this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, and for local photographers, that means lost opportunities for photo shoots of graduating seniors.
As it watched the small community close up, family-owned business Diamond K Sweets in Spencer, Indiana, wanted to find some way to help during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The City of Bloomington announced Wednesday it released money from the city’s Rapid Response Fund to seven businesses negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This story was updated at 9:15 p.m. April 21.
Although Baked! of Bloomington temporarily closed for business last week due to health concerns related to the coronavirus, fans of the shop will still be able to get fresh cookies while in quarantine. Pizza X announced in a statement on its website that starting Monday, the store would be adopting Baked! for the next couple months and adding cookies to its menu.
In addition to the fears surrounding the global pandemic, Americans face an economy that continues to decline.
The owner of Bloomington restaurant Indian Palace died unexpectedly of a heart attack on April 6. Community members have so far donated $1,495 to a GoFundMe created Wednesday to support the owner’s family.
Pizza X hourly employees will receive a 75% pay raise as of April 8 until the end of June, Jeff Mease, the co-owner of the restaurant, said in a Facebook post. This also includes staff that does prep work for Pizza X, such as making the dough, in the restaurant’s commissary kitchen.
Since the application for Bloomington’s Rapid Response Fund opened last week, more than 36 businesses, organizations and nonprofits have completed it and another 138 are working on applications, city spokesperson Yaёl Ksander said Thursday.
Cook Medical Group announced Monday it will cut the hours of salaried workers for the next three months due to changes in demand for medical products, according to an email from communications manager Marsha Lovejoy.
Economic difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be especially hard on small businesses and the hospitality industry, IU experts said.
