Walmart here has been schizophrenic about masks. They only had one store entrance available and had the people outdoors making sure you wore a mask, the store aisles all marked etc. Then they gradually got rid of the folks at the entrance and the aisle markings. After the New Year I started going to Walmart without a mask. There were roughly 15 to 20 percent customers without mask. Today was first time I saw the banner and I just turned around and left not entering the store. I do remember last month when I went to get my haircut, there was a lady getting her hair done and they were talking about Walmart, the lady said she worked at Walmart and since the masks were not mandatory they didn’t enforce wearing them.
I’ll have to test them out next time I go, especially with Florida being open and Walmart is not a private company they are a public company with public shareholders, so the private company excuse won’t fly.
Ha. Yes - they were here at first too. However, someone here had found a copy of Walmart instructions which said to remind, but not to try to enforce, if people objected.
So I told hubby about that and his early encounter with the Employee was as I said up thread. My encounter in another city was also early on while they still had employee outside.
I don’t think they actually have a legal leg to stand on, but I ain’t a lawyer. I just know I ain’t gonna wear one to get groceries or anything else like that. Fortunately we have more people going without than with in our county.
We have enough other places that don’t require it, and I make it a point to go there. Walmart has a few items that I can’t get elsewhere, but I’ll either do without or use what I have in my pantry stash. 😊
I walked into the liquor store the other day and noticed nobody was wearing a mask. I immediately took mine off.
It was surreal.
-SB