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Winn-Dixie, Publix, Walmart: All the U.S. Chains Requiring Masks
New York Times ^ | 7/21/20 | Gillian Friedman

Posted on 07/21/2020 2:20:08 PM PDT by Meatspace

Large retail chains have started requiring customers to wear masks inside all of their stores, as coronavirus cases surge across the country and politicians and public health experts clamor for widespread use of face coverings to stem the spread of the disease.

After Walmart, America’s largest retailer, announced on July 15 that it would mandate in-store mask-wearing, a flurry of other companies, including Kroger, Target and Walgreens, followed suit. This means that customers will be required to wear face masks in stores even in places without local mask ordinances. The National Retail Federation has encouraged companies to set nationwide mask policies to protect employees and shoppers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: karenavirus; maskophiles; maskophobes; typhoidmary
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To: Pollard

“Moved from Ctrl FL to the rural Midwest because I knew, sooner or later, insanity would come.”

Where did you settle? I’m looking at moving too.


101 posted on 07/21/2020 4:41:27 PM PDT by CottonBall (A Republican's power comes from your prosperity. A Democrat's power comes from your poverty.f)
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To: Scott Kraut

Well Walmart is half your problem.
The clientele there live angry.
I refuse to ever shop there.


102 posted on 07/21/2020 4:42:00 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Meatspace

I wonder if we’ll find out how this affects their bottom line at the end each month?


103 posted on 07/21/2020 4:42:35 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: DLfromthedesert

My Walmart had the sign saying “All employees and shoppers must wear a mask.” I just walked in without one past five Walmart employees and no one said a word to me. I would estimate 10 % of the shoppers did not have a mask. I will not wear one. The Arkansas Legislature has not voted yet giving the Gov the authority to require a face covering. If and when that happens I MAY reconsider.


104 posted on 07/21/2020 4:48:13 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: JonPreston
"If you tell them you have a medical condition that precludes wearing a mask, they have to let you in."

Papers please.

105 posted on 07/21/2020 4:52:46 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: no-to-illegals

Amazing how they put the onus of enforcement on the business!


106 posted on 07/21/2020 4:54:35 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Just obey. The mask has nothing to do with stopping the virus.


107 posted on 07/21/2020 4:55:43 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: Monty22002

No, you were wrong, Trump isn’t always right.


108 posted on 07/21/2020 4:57:27 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: no-to-illegals

The mask plus 6’ is right. If you disagree get the hell out of these stores.


109 posted on 07/21/2020 4:58:18 PM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and their AFGE union insurance)
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To: lodi90
You can not deny that those screaming loudest for masks are the very same people that want Trump to lose.

Exactly. They will wear masks for a few months if it gets rid of the 'Orange Man' once and for all. This is ALL political, seeded with plenty of phony, manipulated statistics.

110 posted on 07/21/2020 5:00:22 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: cornfedcowboy

No one said it was, but when the mark comes, it will have the same effect, of stopping people from buying and selling without it.


111 posted on 07/21/2020 5:01:01 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: Monty22002

So you figured we would all become scientifically illiterate suddenly? LOL


112 posted on 07/21/2020 5:01:12 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: BobL
The mask is a sign of things to come. Next it will be the vaccine. Next, it will be the Mark and you have to prove you have it to log on.
113 posted on 07/21/2020 5:02:23 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: Nothingburger
I get the sinking feeling that the media runs this country, not our government.

...and China owns the media.

114 posted on 07/21/2020 5:06:24 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: frank ballenger
Are the stores doing this to be safe from lawsuits?

That is EXACTLY what a store manager let slip when I was grilling him about their 'mask mandate' yesterday.. They are scared sh*tless of being sued.

115 posted on 07/21/2020 5:08:52 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I thought WD had refused? Shakedown?

Phone call. 'Hello? This is George...'

116 posted on 07/21/2020 5:10:20 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: fortheDeclaration
No one said it was, but when the mark comes, it will have the same effect, of stopping people from buying and selling without it.

Test run. Now TPTB KNOW how easy if will be the get people to take the mark.

'Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.'

Take a look around the store, and think about it...

117 posted on 07/21/2020 5:16:47 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Adder
I tried to say i had dontgiveashititis but they were wise to that one

You might have better success if you translated it to Latin.

118 posted on 07/21/2020 5:21:56 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (The only thing goverment does efficiently is waste taxpayer money.)
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To: Nothingburger

Let’s not overreact. It is the businesses decision, as poor of a decision as it is, and it’s our decision to go in, or not, or order online groceries. I’d rather have the business make the requirement than the government.


119 posted on 07/21/2020 5:21:59 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Nothingburger

Let’s not overreact. It is the businesses decision, as poor of a decision as it is, and it’s our decision to go in, or not, or order online groceries. I’d rather have the business make the requirement than the government.


120 posted on 07/21/2020 5:22:19 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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