Got an email from Target. They are reserving Wednesday mornings,

[sinkingfeeling]

first hour after open, for elderly and other high risk shoppers.

[Karadeniz]

1. Good!

[Native]

2. What are they gonna do when young people show up then, kick them out?

[USALiberal]

4. I guess tell them to wait! ???????????????

[LanternWaste]

5. Other (more rational) options are simply letting the youth wait for one hour.

[True Blue American]

3. So is Dollar General.

[Mossfern]

6. Our local Supermarket, Kings

announced the same thing yesterday.
They said that they are going on the honor system for now.
They're pretty expensive though, but Shoprite hasn't instituted the same policy.

[agingdem]

7. that's nice but...

the assumption is that we seniors are not carriers but we are just like the general population...if we've been exposed and we don't know it we're carriers

[Journeyman]

9. I believe the intent is to give seniors a time when they can shop as isolated as possible . . .

A store full of seniors will most likely keep themselves socially distant. Yes, they may be infected, but so may younger people (with a stronger possibility, given that seniors already were more socially isolated than the youth).

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. the other assumption is that seniors can go shopping in the am

My night time meds don't wear off till late morning.
Plus I've been a night owl all my life.

I go shopping before noon, tho, on Sundays here, 'cause almost everyone is in church, no crowds.
Or at least used to, could be they will close churches...

My neighbor is mid-80's, she's up with the birds at 6am and does all her shopping by the time I am getting out of bed. For her, a born and bred Southern woman, beat the heat is important.

[agingdem]

13. here's the thing

so many seniors are not particularly mobile...they are accompanied by their children or grandchildren or care givers... add to that the employees are not seniors..that's the dilemma

[Cattledog]

8. Are they going to check IDs at the door??????

[Maru Kitteh]

12. Some of them are.

[displacedtexan]

10. Safeway said Tuesday & Thursday mornings 7am-9am are for seniors. N/T