Posted on 07/15/2020 10:53:05 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Walmart will require face coverings in all of its stores across the country starting on July 20.
Mandatory masks for customers will be enforced by employees upon entrances at more than 5,000 Walmart and Sam's Club stores, the company announced on Wednesday.
"As the number of confirmed cases has spiked in communities across the country recently, so too have the number and types of face covering mandates being implemented," wrote the retailer's Chief Operating Officer Dacona Smith in a blog post. "Currently about 65 percent of our more than 5,000 stores and clubs are located in areas where there is some form of government mandate on face coverings. To help bring consistency across stores and clubs, we will require all shoppers to wear a face covering starting Monday, July 20. This will give us time to inform customers and members of the changes, post signage and train associates on the new protocols."
The blog post also mentioned that stores will now have a single entrance, and Sam's Club associates will "politely" remind members "of our requirement to wear a face covering when shopping with us. Complimentary masks will be provided if the member doesn’t have one. Or members can purchase masks in the club."
The company has already taken other measures to help protect public health, including using markers to indicate 6 feet of social distancing for customers and increasing sanitizing and cleaning efforts.
Cases of the coronavirus have increased across the country, with more than 3 million people in the United States infected by the virus, and nearly 140,000 people have died.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Can we wear them like a hat?
Why do you suppose they are using this mask requirement? Do you think it is for health reasons? I guess I could use the mask if I thought it actually served public health...which I most certainly Do NOT! It is about public harassment & promotion of resentment among citizens. I only wish the president would pass an executive order about using masks ONLY if the citizen wished to use one.
In my Commie Pinko state of WA, masks are MANDATED before you enter stores. My great local grocer is apologetic, gives you a mask if you don’t have one, has to enforce.
We’re all in the wrong business. Make masks. Actually I got two very cute masks at Ace Hardware, of all places.
I’ll pass on buying at Walmart. Will buy at Kroger or Food City.
In effect in NM, but no problem breathing while shopping, get in the door pull it down under the nose and breathe normal.
The USA has the biggest covid outbreak in the world.
If we want to get it under control and minimize further, deaths, lockdowns, and effects on the economy, and to protect our own and our family members' health, wearing masks to reduce the spread of the virus is really a very minor inconvenience.
People are acting like babies about it.
Better to wear masks and be able to keep as much open as possible.
I am amazed by all these retailers making it more difficult for their customers to shop there. If masks are required, obviously the business is unsafe. And if they’re making a business decision to appeal only to those scared, then they’re alienating a lot of people who have disposable income and think the Covid hype is all crap.
Easy fix though, I simply won’t shop at these businesses. They’re not the only place.
My local grocery store has all the food I need, Amazon has the toys and tools I need. See ya Wally World
Bye Bye Morons.
Bye Wal-Mart. Shopping at ALDIs now!
Be nice. He has a bachelor’s degree from East Central (a DOUBLE direction school, although Central is not exactly a direction) and an MBA from Phoenix University. Obviously worked his way up the A Action ladder.
If you make a scene they might trespass you from the store and chain permanently. However, if you calmly inform you have a qualifying medical condition and can’t wear the mask you may enter, no problem.
Being asked to pin a yellow star to your clothing was also a minor inconvenience. Totalitarianism takes over your life one minor inconvenience at a time.
Last I looked Amazon requires no mask :-)
All Amazon employees are wearing masks in WA. Probably not Bozo, though.
As far as I know, none of these cities or states have seen a reduction in cases due to mask wearing. And I’m pretty sure, if new cases came predominately from non-mask wearers, we would hear is shouted from the rooftops. Since we haven’t, draw your own conclusions.
I posted this yesterday, pardon me pointing it out again...
Masks do three things:
1. They make you anxious and afraid. You are constantly reminded of something to fear.
2. Wearing one makes you resentful at those not wearing masks.
3. Masks isolate you from others and make common interactions almost impossible. No more smiling and joking in the checkout line, or anywhere else. Social behavior breaks down because you can’t see the expressions of others. We stop communicating unless it’s absolutely necessary.
This ‘social friction’, the generalized fear of the public, keeps you from enjoying shopping and getting back to normal. And there is your ‘cratering economy’ that the news just referred to.
Lol!
Wonder if those dumbasses will open the entrance on one end and the exit on the other? Local super Walmart was forcing all entry and exit at same end of building, right next to each other! Would have been better to spread people out, but that must have been too obvious for the Walmart idiots.
Fake physician....get lost.
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