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Giant steps up efforts to remind shoppers to wear face coverings
Pen ^ | 23 July A.D. 2020 | Sue Gleiter

Posted on 07/23/2020 3:12:52 PM PDT by lightman

Giant grocery stores are once again reminding shoppers to wear masks.

Starting this week, employees are positioned at store entrances reminding customers of Pennsylvania’s order to wear face coverings while inside stores, said Ashley Flower, spokeswoman.

In addition, Giant will offer complimentary masks by request if customers don’t have one or have forgotten, she said.

“We care deeply for all of our customers and are committed to creating a respectful and compassionate environment,” Flower said. “In that spirit, we will not prevent someone from entering our store if they cannot wear a mask for medical reasons.”

Employees also are reminding shoppers about Giant Direct services, including pickup and delivery. All team members continue to wear masks, Flower said, adding stores continue to play messages over the in-store radios and display signs reminding customers about the mask requirement.

In recent weeks, large retailers including CVS, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target and Walmart have announced they are requiring customers to wear face masks.

In the meantime, Giant also announced today its customers donated more than $1 million to support Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The Giant Company is among the top 15 fundraisers in the country for the hospitals.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: complimentarymask; facemask; freedomofchoice; giant; giantfoodstore; masks; medicalreasons; paping
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Giant is a mid-Atlantic regional grocery chain headquartered in Pennsylvania. Stores also in MD & VA

FINALLY--a voice of reason:

"We care deeply for all of our customers and are committed to creating a respectful and compassionate environment,” Flower said. “In that spirit, we will not prevent someone from entering our store if they cannot wear a mask for medical reasons.”

1 posted on 07/23/2020 3:12:52 PM PDT by lightman
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

2 posted on 07/23/2020 3:13:40 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Giant is refusing to apply for the $3/ hour pandemic pay boost from the state of PA.

Their (lame) excuse is it wouldn’t be “fair” to employees in other states.


3 posted on 07/23/2020 3:14:23 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: lightman

Someone in management at a local Walmart said that out of quite a few thousand customers this week so far, only one simply refused to wear a mask. She said that the management could “kick her out.” She was told to leave and left.

One other customer removed hers in the store and put it back on after being told to by the store manager. The thousands of other customers were cheerful and no trouble at all.

There’s a vast difference between the way some people behave with social media and the way they behave in person.

People with psychopathic or narcissistic traits are less likely to follow face mask rules or obey lockdowns because they don’t think they work, study finds - and they’re MORE likely to hoard toilet paper
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8552163/People-psychopathic-narcissistic-traits-likely-follow-face-mask-rules.html


4 posted on 07/23/2020 3:27:58 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: P.O.E.

There’s nothing lame about Giant’s rationale there. When you run a business with locations in multiple states, life gets a bit more complicated.


5 posted on 07/23/2020 3:32:39 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: lightman

Adaptive and maladaptive behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of Dark Triad traits, collective narcissism, and health beliefs
Personality and Individual Differences
Volume 167, 1 December 2020, 110232
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886920304219


6 posted on 07/23/2020 3:33:45 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: lightman

Put them on.The kids are getting hit with this latest stain.I know 3 people with it.Two in Pa and One in Cal.


7 posted on 07/23/2020 3:33:47 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: fatima

And....???? Are they in the hospital?...we’re they sick more than a few days?...symptoms Severity?


8 posted on 07/23/2020 3:38:44 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: fatima

Strain.We got our VACA Family in.Wearing masks to the pool.Having fun.


9 posted on 07/23/2020 3:38:58 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: goodnesswins

It’s called please.


10 posted on 07/23/2020 3:40:02 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: familyop

What if we just think we are being manipulated? Are we narcissistic to insist on personal freedoms?

A serious question I’d love someone who wants masks to answer:

If masks prevent the spread of covid, why do just as many women as men have covid in Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia? The women there won’t go out in public unmasked upon pain of death. Is their case rate not the same as for women in non muslim countries?

If any pro mask FReeper would address that question id liveto hear from you.


11 posted on 07/23/2020 3:41:54 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: lightman

place i normally go to caved to pressure

will be going to another place not requiring masks


12 posted on 07/23/2020 3:49:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lightman

Giant is my number two go to store when I can’t find things at number one. I have not encountered any problems going maskless anywhere, including Giant. It seems that will remain the same. It’s really time to stop these silly games though. These mask have become people’s little baby blankets.


13 posted on 07/23/2020 3:50:11 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: familyop

What a crock. Stay home crybaby.


14 posted on 07/23/2020 3:50:34 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Persevero

Hoax


15 posted on 07/23/2020 3:51:42 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: familyop

People with psychopathic or narcissistic traits are less likely to follow face mask rules or obey lockdowns because they don’t think they work, study finds - and they’re MORE likely to hoard toilet paper

Question authority and you’re labeled a psychopath. How very old school soviet.


16 posted on 07/23/2020 3:54:57 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: familyop

people who also realize stuff doesnt work wont follow it either just to make others ‘feel safer’

its amazing how people ratiobalize their sheepleness


17 posted on 07/23/2020 3:56:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: familyop

18 posted on 07/23/2020 4:02:47 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: lightman

I hope Giant goes out of business.


19 posted on 07/23/2020 4:07:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (Covid is over. We have been conditioned by it. The Cultural Revolution has begun.)
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To: Alberta's Child

They manage to program their payroll for different states’ taxes and other regulatory items.

I think they’re skinflinting.


20 posted on 07/23/2020 4:18:50 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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