Was thinking about that I have to go to post office.
I guess Publix cares about service desk workers, Kroger isn’t saying anything about them. Will Kroger having six foot queuing separation at self checkout? That’ll go well
Interesting.
Will Kroger build a plexiglass shield around each shopper to protect them from the air in an aisle where someone infected with the virus had just sneezed moments before??
A better way is to order your food from Kroger online, where you can schedule a parking lot pickup (never having to enter the store), or home delivery to your porch.
My sister works at a Kroger pharmacy. I mentioned 2 days ago that I wish they would do this for her. I hope it comes true.
That sounds like a good long term investment. Or, maybe just replace them with friendly robots.
Just like a currency exchange in the ghetto. Sounds like they expect a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Already have those up at Stop and Shop where I live (Massachusetts). I thought I was at a liquor store.
What horrified my wife at the grocery store a week ago was a salad and cold food buffet line where you could grab a serving spoon or tongs to pick up food and place it in a container you also picked out of a pile of other containers. The foods could be touched and you had to use a serving spoon touched by others. The fresh food was only protected by a sneeze guard.
This week when she went shopping, they had at least removed that food option and had some of the same items, but prepackaged in sealed containers.
There is a lot that can be done in grocery stores to reduce the spread of germs and virus.
Having disinfecting whips to clean the electronic keypad where club card or phone number is entered and where debit card pin can be entered would be an improvement, even in the self checkout stations.
One story I read recommended that when you go to the produce section to buy fruit or certain vegetables that you take a plastic bag and put your hand in it to pick up the fruit or veggies and then either turn the bag inside out or place the fruit into another bag you opened. If more people did that then the germ/virus transmission path would be reduced.
Similarly, the use of reusable bags should be banned as they are a contamination source unless you sanitize them after each use when you get home. Once use plastic or paper shopping bags are safer.
I’d be happy if Kroger could keep the scan and go working so I don’t have to see a human at all.
went shopping yesterday plexiglass at the cashier was the set up at Central Market along with 6 foot markers on the floor
Some of our local stores (Sprouts, for example) have already done this.
Could they not spend that money on self checkout lanes. The cashier is then fully protected. Unemployed, but fully protected.
Giant Eagle doing this as well. My 18 year old kid is working 30+ hour weeks as a cashier through all of this. Most of the cashiers in his store are college and high school kids. He is also carrying a pass in his car that states he works for an essential business if he gets pulled over. I’m happy to see him behind some kind of barrier.
hy-vee (large midwest grocery chain) has already done this.
saw them myself yesterday on my weekly avocado run.
Since the states / democrats are banning plastic bags they should be more worried about the slime and goo inhabiting the cloth bags people are bringing in and reusing many times without washing between uses.