I find it funny how we are trusting store employees to sanitize a store. Even in ideal conditions it is almost impossible to clean a high traffic area. They would need to remove every item from the shelf, clean the outside of the item and the shelves themselves. This is just a feel good approach.
“Walmart stores will have limits for customers in certain categories including paper products, milk, eggs, cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, water, diapers, wipes, formula, and baby food.”
They should have limited weights. Every barbell, dumbbell, and plate was sold out at all the Walmarts in my neighborhood.
A pro-active, smart business idea. I wouldn’t mind ALL retail shops closing earlier if it would mean better stocked, better organized and CLEANER stores.
This will be a blow to Beau. He raccoon hunts, so wanders around a lot in the night. He’s mentioned to me many times how easy it is to shop at Walmart at 2am, LOL!
So if you are 60 you need to go in at 6am or can you go any other time?
I would just rather order online but that seems to be all screwed up at the moment.
I was at Walmart yesterday and the area with canned beans was completely empty ,LOL
Dammit. I have to be at work at 7. I hit Wal-Mart a couple times a week just after 6 to get in and out quickly when it’s empty.
People who have all day to shop aren’t going to be affected. Those of us who work are going to be crammed into the store in those few hours after work and before they close. Seems that will be the opposite of social distancing.
Wonder if they will card you or do you just have to look 60
One night I awoke around 2:00 A.M. and decided to do my shopping at the 24 hour Walmart. I think I was the only customer in the store.
When I got ready to checkout I had to find someone to do so. Evey one was stocking shelves. Closing early would not be much of a change.
Meijer is open 24/7.
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“Walmart is offering ... an hour-long senior shopping event every Tuesday for customers aged 60 and older.”
Which hour, I wonder. Would be good to know.
is there any consideration for the millions with young children and now no jobs due to the hysteria?....why are people so concerned with the older people when its the younger families taking the brunt of this financially....they need milk, tp, diapers, etc for their kids....
Based on my daily shopping this week I would say skip walmart and head to Aldi. They are much better stocked in my area of Florida, anyway. Walmart was actually trending down as of tuesday.
They have implemented similar policies in the two stores near me (Smith's and Wal-Mart). 6-7 a.m. I think.
As an Old Fud myself, my thinking is that If I HAD to go, I'd rather mix in with the general population than a group of old people who have a higher risk of already being infected. Personally, I think this is overblown, but it doesn't hurt to be prudent.
As an aside, my semi-annual checkup at the VA was changed to a phone interview. They asked me if that was OK and I said yes as long as I had a blood test - I didn't want to go a full year before I had another one.
60 and older get a special hour on Tuesday. This is a retirement community. It’ll be packed with old, slow people (I’m 64)! Get your stuff and stand in line for two hours. Ugh...
Another senior perk and I just turned 60...oh, wait...it’s just Walmart
This will give their employess time to get more TP. Seriously I was there today just before 6AM. The guard let an employee out with a cart full of toliet paper, which she took to her car and then returned to the store. Once they let the 6 of us waiting outside in, not one roll was on the shelves. I picked the wrong careeer.
I went with my 86yo mother to Walmart today. She’s been suffering insomnia, worried about having enough food in the house. She cannot use the self-checkout, very technically challenged. Regular cashiers are in such short supply that she didn’t want to go there, afraid she’d end up in a line.
Anyway, we got there shortly after 7, which is when I normally shop to avoid crowds. There were a few more cars in the lot than normal, but not bad. We took our own wipes/roll of paper towels & made liberal use of them.
Quite a few of the Walmart employees seemed to be friendlier than usual. Restocking was going on in many of the aisles. No hamburger, no whole milk, eggs were in short supply. Canned tuna, sardines & salmon were in very short supply. We did get the last 4 cans of some salmon, a couple of cans of sardines & found some eggs. The paper product shelves were still empty at Walmart (we have plenty - got ours at least 2 weeks ago). Later in the day, we did find whole milk & hamburger at Aldi’s.
I felt ok there and we were more cautious than usual. We had 2 carts full of groceries & a self-check with a long conveyor was open - no one was around. We saw a couple of people wearing gloves, one guy in a mask/gloves. Most folks seemed to be fairly cheerful and polite. It was a good trip overall. I think restocking of some items will be slow, but in general, many of the shelves had more on them than the last time I was there & I think progress is being made.
If this crap is bad enough to wreck the economy and drive up trillions of dollars more national debt the authorities should take steps to minimize traffic by designated shopping days as in even / odd depending on your address or alphabet groups on certain days.
I mean crap, if we are going to destroy the economy and wreck the stock market might as well do this right and not pussy foot around about it. In for a penny in for a pound.
A part of me almost hopes it is really bad to make the “cure” commensurate with the disease.