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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAttention Walmart Shoppers: You now must all wear masks
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is the latest national chain to require all customers to wear masks.
The change will start next week. Starbucks (SBUX)said last week that it will require customers to wear facial coverings or masks in all 9,000 of its company-owned US stores beginning Wednesday. Best Buy (BBY) announced Tuesday that it will also require all shoppers coming into its approximately 1,000 stores to wear face masks. Costco (COST) began requiring its members to wear masks in stores beginning in May.
Although no federal mandate to wear a mask exists, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says everyone "should wear a cloth face cover when they have to go out in public." The CDC said "face coverings are meant to protect other people."
Most major retailers and grocers initially hesitated to enact their own mask mandates for customers during the pandemic, partly over fears of antagonizing shoppers who refuse to wear them. Retailers have said they are reluctant to put their employees in the position of enforcing mask requirements.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/business/walmart-masks/index.html
Cue the Trumper outrage ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 BOOM!
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)lettucebe
(2,337 posts)The pharmacist endangering all those in her workplace. This at Fred Meyers
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)ret5hd
(20,536 posts)goddamnit! Now what the hell am i supposed to think!!!
Coventina
(27,217 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)It's the only store within twenty miles of here so there's not a choice of stores. But when I go usually only older people wearing masks but even those people don't social distance. They have one way aisles too but do you think anyone follows those? Very few.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Let's hope it makes a difference
Cairycat
(1,708 posts)enforcement of mask wearing among staff and especially customers, will depend a great deal on how the local manager, owner, franchisee, etc. feel about mask wearing. Where management is only half-ass on board, enforcement will be lax or non-existent.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The mistake of going in on a weekend was alarming, apparently traumatizing because for sure we won't repeat it, masks or no. But not on any day here in FL while 1 in 3 people tested, and climbing, are positive.
Fwiw, though, Covid's actually made us Walmart shoppers because of Walmart's sheer range of merchandise and one-stop pick-up, delivered into the rear of our car by associates who never get close. And we feel a lot better for them also.
Walmart tends to run out of some food items more than other supermarkets, and not all merchandise is available for pickup, but a very broad range of grocery and non-grocery merchandise is, face masks, paint brushes, food containers, printer paper, 40-pound bags of salt for the well. The operation's pretty smooth for its complexity. We're informed via both the app and again by the associate in the parking lot of replacements they've made for items not in stock in case we don't want them.
One of the shoppers in our closest store apparently thinks jalapenos are poblanos, though, and after two tries I'm now over-supplied with jalapenos, which join the extras I already had tossed in the freezer. Correction of payment is just a matter of hitting a button, use or toss the jalapenos, and message again to please educate the shopper. But we're still feeling rajas poblanas-deprived.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Including Walmart shoppers.
I wish people wouldn't wear them under their noses though. Saw one the other day literally down to his upper lip.