{"id":939123,"date":"2020-11-23T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=939123"},"modified":"2020-11-24T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T22:33:03","slug":"bgc-to-offer-covid-vaccine-for-free-when-approved-and-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=939123","title":{"rendered":"BGC to offer COVID vaccine for free when approved and available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/BROOKSHIRES-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-806787\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Brookshire Grocery Company announced Monday they will offer COVID-19 vaccines for free when they are approved and available. According to our news partner KETK, Brookshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Super 1 Foods pharmacies will offer it to the public in keeping with their goal of keeping their communities safe. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our company is committed to supporting our communities and providing for our customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 daily and essential needs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Brad Brookshire, Chairman and CEO for Brookshire Grocery Co.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Brookshire continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are proud to participate in the plan to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines to best serve our communities. Our pharmacy team is actively enrolling with each state in order to be ready to safely administer vaccines when available. We care about our neighbors and are committed to doing what we can to lessen the impact of COVID-19.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d When the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, pharmacy staff will be trained to safely administer it and educate patients. BGC pharmacists have administered vaccines previously. BGC is based in Tyler, and employs more than 15,000 individuals throughout Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Brookshire Grocery Company announced Monday they will offer COVID-19 vaccines for free when they are approved and available. According to our news partner KETK, Brookshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Super 1 Foods pharmacies will offer it to the public in keeping with their goal of keeping their communities safe. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our company is committed to supporting our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=939123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BGC to offer COVID vaccine for free when approved and available<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":806787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 22:12:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939279,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939123\/revisions\/939279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/806787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}