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Walmart Will Limit Number of Customers in Stores Starting Saturday......
.theepochtimes ^ | 4/3/2020 | JACK PHILLIPS

Posted on 04/03/2020 10:03:12 PM PDT by caww

Walmart announced it will limit the number of people inside its stores at the same time during the COVID-19 pandemic.....“Starting Saturday, we will limit the number of customers who can be in a store at once. Stores will now allow no more than five customers for each 1,000 square feet at a given time, roughly 20 percent of a store’s capacity,” according to a release. Store employees will start a line at a single-entry door and will tell customers to go there to queue. They will then be allowed in the store one-by-one, according to the company.

“Associates and signage will remind customers of the importance of social distancing while they’re waiting to enter a store–especially before it opens in the morning,” the store wrote.

Customers will be admitted inside one at a time when a store reaches capacity.

“We’ll also institute one-way movement through our aisles next week in a number of our stores, using floor markers and direction from associates. We expect this to help more customers avoid coming into close contact with others as they shop,” the Arkansas-based retailer said.

“And once customers check out, they will be directed to exit through a different door than they entered, which should help lessen the instances of people closely passing each other,” it said.

Target on Thursday announced a similar measure to promote social distancing as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus continues to spread.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; crowdedparkinglots; hurryupandwait; jackphillips; leavethekidsathome; retail; shopping; sidebarabuse; sowehaveheard; walmart
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1 posted on 04/03/2020 10:03:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Wall off NYC.

We will be fine.


2 posted on 04/03/2020 10:05:12 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The Dems in conjunction with the MSM trashed the entire World economy to get at one guy.)
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To: caww

I don’t need no stinking “social distancing” guidelines or “stay home” requests because the nervous Nellies have become so paranoid, so anti-social, and so downright hostile that I really don’t want to be around them.

Shopping is a chore to be dreaded and endured.

People cringing and backing up against shelves when you pass them...I’d like to tell them to “get a life” because what they have is mere EXISTENCE.

But I’d probably get arrested for “inciting”.

There is no First Amendment anymore.

This is not America.

The ChiComs won.


3 posted on 04/03/2020 10:05:51 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: caww

I really miss Kmart!


4 posted on 04/03/2020 10:06:03 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: lightman

Naw this is just Wal Mart’s doing.

Dollar General is still open. If you are lucky you still have a Kmart.


5 posted on 04/03/2020 10:07:51 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: caww

Guess they won’t need to restock as often..,,

Time to order online

Sick of being herded like a dumb sheep


6 posted on 04/03/2020 10:09:38 PM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: caww

Wow, are they going to put up stop lights at the intersections of aisles?


7 posted on 04/03/2020 10:11:36 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: caww

L8r


8 posted on 04/03/2020 10:13:39 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: Morgana

The other retailers will fall in line, monkey-see/monkey do.

Just like the State Governors.


9 posted on 04/03/2020 10:14:05 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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10 posted on 04/03/2020 10:14:52 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Morgana

“I really miss Kmart!”

Move to Guam! The largest Kmart in the world is there. It’s really nice


11 posted on 04/03/2020 10:15:34 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: caww
“Associates and signage will remind customers of the importance of social distancing

I'm very anti-social already.

Keep your distance.

12 posted on 04/03/2020 10:15:52 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nevermorelenore

Some things like paper towels, soap and toilet paper Walmart and Target wont let you order online and have it shipped. It will say “Only available In Store Only”.

This mat change at some point but I do not know.


13 posted on 04/03/2020 10:17:17 PM PDT by funfan
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To: caww

Saw this already yesterday in
Danvers MA; I saw the line and left
the parking lot, not wanting to
wait.


14 posted on 04/03/2020 10:17:56 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I visited Wallyworld yesterday afternoon, first time in a week or so, lots of people, about half of them masked and with terror in their eyes. Nothing much had been picked clean that I noticed, the soups were about the only grocery section which looked like it had been hit a little hard. They had only one entrace open and had six greeters, plus they had crowd control barriers to keep the in line going in and the out line coming out.

15 posted on 04/03/2020 10:22:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: caww

Well sh*t. Walmart was one of the few bastions of sanity among all this hysteria.


16 posted on 04/03/2020 10:23:48 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: funfan

I’ve found that smaller stores where I don’t normally shop have some of those things like toilet paper and other paper products (napkins, paper towels, tissues) - like Dollar General or K-Mart. I rarely shop in them, but have been in them more in the past month than I’d been in the past three years. Small refrigerated/frozen sections, but plenty of canned food, snacks, toiletries, etc.. - with minimal numbers of shoppers.


17 posted on 04/03/2020 10:24:22 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: lightman

Or perhaps people will post the big crowds of people standing in the rain around the start of the line for entry and embarrass the retailers.

Essentially this is resulting in crowds asshole to elbow outside the stores. Sometimes just a little well earned ridicule can solve a problem.


18 posted on 04/03/2020 10:27:17 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: caww

Just used Walmart Pickup to get groceries. Very efficient, quick and easy. I have a new appreciation for Walmart.


19 posted on 04/03/2020 10:27:41 PM PDT by freedom1st (Build the Walli)
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To: caww

I saw this going on at Home Depot yesterday. About 20 people lined up to get in. I got back in my car, drove home, and downloaded the files to make the tool I needed (tub drain wrench) on my 3D printer. It’s printing now - should be waiting for me when I wake up tomorrow.

Fortunately, I think I’m stocked up on everything I need to get through this mess without having to shop soviet-style.


20 posted on 04/03/2020 10:32:59 PM PDT by Freedom_Isn't_Free (in fact, it isn't even cheap)
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