Posted on 04/02/2020 5:28:28 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The order applies to "big box" stores in the state as a way to increase social distancing between customers during the coronavirus crisis.
State officials in Vermont are ordering large retailers that sell critical items such as food and prescription drugs to stop the in-person sale of nonessential products such as clothing and electronics.
The directive, announced Tuesday by Vermont's Agency of Commerce and Community Development, was addressed at "big box" retailers.
Whenever possible, stores such as Walmart, Target and Costco must stop the sale of nonessential items within the store and require online or telephone ordering, delivery, and curbside pickup instead.
Big box retailers generate significant shopping traffic by virtue of their size and the variety of goods offered.
“This volume of shopping traffic significantly increases the risk of further spread of this dangerous virus to Vermonters and the viability of Vermont’s health care system. We are directing these stores to put public health first and help us reduce the number of shoppers by requiring on-line ordering, delivery and curbside pickup whenever possible, and by stopping the sale of non-essential items," Agency of Commerce and Community Development Secretary Lindsay Kurrle said in a statement.
The items that cannot be sold in person include, but are not limited to, arts and crafts, beauty supplies, carpet and flooring, clothing, consumer electronics, entertainment, furniture, home and garden, jewelry, paint, photo services, sports equipment and toys.
Stores are ordered to close aisles, close portions of the store or remove items from the shelves.
The agency also said showrooms and garden sections of large home improvement centers should be closed unless there is a life-threatening emergency.
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Ah, the socialist’s fave phrase, “Ah, that was easy.”
They didn’t object at the stay at home, and so the next steps begin.
That Second Amendment will be needed, guaranteed.
These vermin can only go one way.
Who, if memory serves correctly, "knows nothing!"
But the problem is-you tell a clothing store to shut down, claiming it is “non-essential” but then you let people buy cloths at Wal-Mart.
It’s the antithesis of “free market.” You are picking and choosing winners and losers.
Isn’t this the state represented by politicians like Leaky Leahy and Bernie the Bolshelvik?
Why would the residents be surprised to find the jackboot on their necks?
*** Does this have anything to do with the Hobby Lobby complaints? ***
My daughter has a jewelry business, and there are sometimes things she needs for that business that she can get at Hobby Lobby, and not have to wait days or weeks via mail order.
I have more concern with Norrad going underground....There’s more going on here than appears on the surface.
With CCP likly working with their allies in Central American . Admitted or not we are at war with the Red Dragon. Chairman Xi is cunning and strategic; President Trump is countering.
When the elastic goes on your shorts, you need new clothes.
Thank god for that. They just set up hospitals at Javits Center in NYC. How often do you thing someone had to go to the local hardware store to buy stuff to get it all set up? You thing the central planners at the Army Corps of Engineers have a complete list of everything needed for all contingencies?
You people just have no clue.
Even this has exceptions -- my daughter is currently the "designated shopper" for the family. She is buying groceries for our 3-generation home, and also for my mom & step-dad who live nearby (mom is 92 & he has chronic low-grade leukemia) . My daughter has been using 2 carts so she can keep the purchases separate.
I saw a post earlier where they said they had been harassed in Target for buying printer ink & paper, which are "non-essential". Well, maybe so, but what if you are being asked (forced) to "work from home", and you don't have enough supplies to last during the shutdown? Anybody know where we can dredge up some old mimeograph machines??
Crazy NAZIs.
They will keep on pushing and pushing. This crisis will go on forever. It will never end. I wish it will end now.
The Democrats probably want to start Civil War II. They want people to rebel so they can smack them down.
I wish Trump were a little stronger and not be taken in.
The Dems and the media are orgasmic over this! This entire episode is setting a very scary precedent! Just wait until the Dems control the Federal government! They won’t forget we elected Trump!
Sadly, we have some FReepers applauding their freedoms being taken away in the name of keeping them safe! Idiots!
I am been following this since Mid Jan
The only way China got this under control (if you believe them saying it is under control) is to do a complete lockdown in the hardest hit areas
and they only allowed 1 person per household to get groceries and other true essentials every 3 days, other than that zippo
and most if not all factories shut down , including what many here would be “essential”
here we are doing it half-assed
you can make an argument for almost anything to be “essential” , that is why we are so screwed....
(oh and if you didn’t wear a mask you got arrested)
every western country has under estimated this virus
Thank god for that. They just set up hospitals at Javits Center in NYC. How often do you thing someone had to go to the local hardware store to buy stuff to get it all set up? You thing the central planners at the Army Corps of Engineers have a complete list of everything needed for all contingencies?
You people just have no clue.
LOL..you really think the Army Corp of engineers don’t have the correct tools
LOL
and if they didn’t they couldn’t go to hardware store to get them to build something like that?
I AM TALKING ABOUT THE AVERAGE JOE
And they post on this forum.
Call them the Venezuela Bros. A whole flock of Hugo Chavez wannabes.
These FR Coronavirus threads are like being at the Democratic Underground!
and we have been correct with our predictions and “concerns” since January
go back and read my posts
IMBW but wasn’t there a war fought about 150 years ago about states rights?
perhaps a solution is to limit the number of people in the store at any one time
Dumb. I mean, they’re already there walking around the store.
That’s about as dumb as letting the criminals out of jail. I mean, you had them quarantined!
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