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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPublix no longer requires people to wear masks in their stores
Sooo... Publix no longer requires people to wear masks in their stores, at least in my part of FL
Signs on the doors say masks required but yesterday as my wife was checking out w/groceries at self-checkout, three men were in the same area WITHOUT masks
WTG, Publix
Employees have been told they cannot confront customers with masks, unless another customer says something and then they can get a manager
relayerbob
(6,510 posts)Been that way for months, since probably last summer
Phoenix61
(16,954 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,847 posts)Why am I not surprised?
StClone
(11,679 posts)Only TWO stores I found demand masks:
Menard's: Right Wing owner drove patrons to confront employees with policy. Guess what? The customers were removed physically if needed!
Trader Joe's: Good for them!
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)They even announce it every five minutes. And probably 99% of customers are properly masked. The employees, however, make no effort to mask, and management doesnt care or try to enforce it.
I dont shop Menards, but I heard only positive things about the one in my area.
Trader Joes was great for a few months, then slacked off. I was there one day when a man who was obviously very ill was shopping with his mask down, coughing and sneezing everywhere. Manager said he would take care of it, but he never did, and we gave up on shopping there.
StClone
(11,679 posts)Most Kroger shoppers I see are wearing masks. However, you can waltz in maskless, and be the fly in the punch bowl, with no blowback here since last summer. Apparently the company projected the position of "requiring masks" but enforcement leeway is given each store's Director to feel out the local situation (or Director's commitment).
As for Wisconsin-based Menards, they could give stuff away free and I'd still avoid them. Right wing owners, like them and Wisconsin-based Kwik Trip (differs from Oklahoma-based Quick Trip), also won't get my business.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I'm so glad I live here.
demmiblue
(36,751 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)We were waiting to get our 2nd shot of vaccine, and observed many customers walking around without masks. Employees were all wearing masks.
But Publix has the best fried chicken (head and shoulders above KFC) and the best desserts.
Bought some oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries, so yummy!
rictofen
(235 posts)I do credit Publix for making it so easy to setup shots for my parents. Their vaccine booking events have been very user-friendly: you find out pretty quickly whether you get an appointment or not and then you can go about your day.
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)samplegirl
(11,415 posts)Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)Masks are still mandated in Ohio, and places of business are under state orders to enforce it. Yet store employees and managers refuse to enforce it - even when pointed out by a customer. They tell me there is nothing they can do.
obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)And Whole Foods, and Target. Only Trader Joe's will confront, but they are not legally allowed to enforce. They have called Police.
In It to Win It
(8,143 posts)I'm in South Florida. There are 4 Publix stores within a 10 minute drive from my house. They weren't letting anyone in the stores without masks. They would stop people at the door.
spinbaby
(15,073 posts)Whole Foods is covered with signage about proper masking and Ive never seen anyone without. Here in western Pennsylvania, mask compliance is more by geography than by store chainthe farther you get from Pittsburgh, the worse the mask compliance.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)and their fried chicken is the best I have eaten anywhere.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)and they carry a few items we don't find at the big Target nearby
soryang
(3,299 posts)While in publix here getting the vaccine, there are signs that masks must be worn. Yet about 10 percent of the customers going in to shop don't wear masks and pass by the small congested space where people must wait before and after their pharmacy appointment. Police cars in the area, which is only a few hundred meters from the city police station park in the back of the mall where there is no traffic, drink coffee, and chat, basically doing nothing on the public dime. Meanwhile there is a blue stripe right wing flag hanging on the wall in front of the police HQ.