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Kroger, Walmart reverse their mask policies as Delta variant spreads
CBS ^ | JULY 30, 2021 / 4:59 PM / CBS/AP

Posted on 07/30/2021 2:25:31 PM PDT by conservative98

Kroger and Walmart, two of the nation's biggest retailing chains, are changing their mask policies as the nation contends with less-vaccinated regions getting hit by high infection rates due to the Delta variant.

Kroger is now "strongly" encouraging all individuals, including those who are vaccinated, to wear a mask when in its stores and facilities, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based supermarket operator said Friday, citing updated recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previously, Kroger had required unvaccinated employees wear masks and requested that unvaccinated shoppers do the same.

"We will continue to abide by all state and local mandates and encourage all Americans to get vaccinated, including our associates," the company said in an emailed statement. Kroger, the nation's largest grocer, operates nearly 2,800 stores in 35 states.

Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart said it will require all its workers — including vaccinated ones — to wear masks in areas with high infection rates of COVID-19. The country's largest retailer also is encouraging its customers to wear masks in stores in areas with high infection rates from the Delta variant of the coronavirus, and will be adding back signs at entrances announcing its latest policies, according to a memo supplied by Walmart that was sent to its employees Friday.

Walmart will also bring back its "health ambassadors" who will be positioned at the entrances and hand out masks to customers.

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To: conservative98

So will Wal-Mart deny entrance to people who don’t wish to wear a mask? If so, I’d better hurry and buy what I need. Had planned to wait until my regular every-other-week excursion, but it looks like time is of the essence.


21 posted on 07/30/2021 2:50:36 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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To: M. Thatcher

The EU just screwed Amazon like a drunken Tri-Delt


22 posted on 07/30/2021 2:50:41 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: AFB-XYZ

Customers don’t have to wear a masks.


23 posted on 07/30/2021 2:52:04 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

The Mockingbird Media is obsessed with the jab, regardless of the dire consequences.

It really makes you wonder who’s feeding them this narrative constantly.


24 posted on 07/30/2021 2:52:22 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Pollard

Hope the new rules won’t be enforced. A believe a majority of people (even our political opposites) are fed up with gasping for breath under a mask, and watching restaurants go out of business with 7 customers an hour kept 6 feet apart.
How can they make a profit?

Not all places can make it on pizza and bagel and coffee style delivery and pickups.

“Your filet mignon, potatoes and asparagus tips will be handed to you in a clamshell at the third door in the alley behind our establishment in 21 minutes exactly. Please be there. $52.10 including tax. Gratuity not included. Please pay with your phone.”


25 posted on 07/30/2021 2:54:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: conservative98
positioned at the entrances and hand out masks to customers.

I never wore a mask at Walmart or anywhere else in our small town. Every once and a while, the door greeter would tell me I had to put one on, but I ignored them, purchased my groceries and departed.
26 posted on 07/30/2021 2:57:28 PM PDT by neefer (Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run.)
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To: Hurst Mama

“have both gone to 100% self checkout which I can’t stand”

I wont ask why but I can guess really good..


27 posted on 07/30/2021 2:57:52 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: conservative98

Does ANYONE REALLY trust the numbers being put out by government? I sure don’t!


28 posted on 07/30/2021 2:57:59 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: BrexitBen

The mockingbird media scared the public about the vaccines.

Bloodclots, heart attacks, sudden death. Worldwide, the public doesn’t trust the science anymore.

Game over.....


29 posted on 07/30/2021 2:58:27 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Can anyone point to one state in the US in which fatalities due to COVID are increasing?

No. But the corrupt government and media could supply some for you.

Your great tagline (A world in which dogs write poetry is more believable than the world as seen through the Media) reminds me a little of this line:

“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” ― William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems

30 posted on 07/30/2021 3:00:40 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: conservative98

CBS missed the latest news from the CDC.

It’s the vaccinated folks spreading the diseases.


31 posted on 07/30/2021 3:00:50 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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Perhaps the vaxed Delta accelerators should stay home.


32 posted on 07/30/2021 3:03:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: conservative98

Personally, I prefer the Chicago variant to the Delta variant.

Jazz, that is!


33 posted on 07/30/2021 3:04:29 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: Hurst Mama

No self checkout for me. In some Walmarts they get up to check out and find they have to do the self thing and just leave carts. . .ice cream and all.

I refuse to do the self checkout thing. It is germy. . .just another way to keep people from socializing with each other. Usually when I strike up a conversation. . .they are either in agreement with me or I have an opportunity to inform them more on an issue.

For this senior it’s checkout by employees, pickup or another store.

It’s all about control . . . it’s all about priming people for the Great Tribulation and the anti-Christ. Be ready everyone and spread the Word. There are only two choices. . .heaven or hell/Jesus or satan.


34 posted on 07/30/2021 3:05:41 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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To: conservative98

Sorry, that should say ‘blues’ rather than ‘jazz.

Vacation brain fart, on my part.


35 posted on 07/30/2021 3:06:16 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: M. Thatcher
Sorry wrong. The EU just announced a nearly $900 million dollar privacy violation fine against Amazon
36 posted on 07/30/2021 3:07:36 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: conservative98

37 posted on 07/30/2021 3:11:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: conservative98
Customers don’t have to wear a masks.

Whew! Many thanks for that info. The thing about "health ambassadors" at the doors to hand out masks threw me.

38 posted on 07/30/2021 3:14:08 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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To: frank ballenger

I get real pleasure out and f ignoring them.


39 posted on 07/30/2021 3:18:39 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: frank ballenger

“stupid floor vinyl One Way signs “

I ignored them from the beginning.


40 posted on 07/30/2021 3:31:18 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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