Posted on 03/15/2020 2:12:16 AM PDT by rdl6989
Walmart will reduce its store hours in their 24-hour locations starting Sunday amid concerns of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the company announced Saturday evening.
Starting Sunday, March 15, Walmart stores and Neighborhood Markets will be open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
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L8r
What’s that even supposed to accomplish?
Interesting story,...
‘Don’t underestimate this virus…we are in living hell’: Tayside woman caught up in Italy lockdown warns Scots of Covid-19
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/1192630/dont-underestimate-this-virus-we-are-in-living-hell-tayside-woman-caught-up-in-italy-lockdown-warns-scots-of-covid-19/
...but the numbers are going up rapidly.
Italy registers 17,750 coronavirus cases, death toll surges to 1,441
https://www.aninews.in/news/world/europe/italy-registers-17750-coronavirus-cases-death-toll-surges-to-144120200315144250/
I think they can then effectively disinfect each store, each day.
I think it allows employees time to restock the shelves.
Closed 11p to 6a? People who take their preschool children bawling through the store during those hours hardest hit!
The less humans congregate to buy toilet paper the less the virus can spread. Don't give the virus hosts and it dies. Give businesses where humans congregate time to decontaminate. Protect the people who work in the businesses from contracting. Limit the spread. Make the infection graph go down instead of up. Delay the spread as much as possible until a vaccine is available. Stuff like that.
No problem, seasonal flu always causes these global disruptions.
So the ppl who would have shoped during the now closed hours won't shop when Walmart is open?
Those stores also have heating systems that don’t allow much ventilation from the outdoors, because such systems are more efficient in regards to cost.
Did you type that from a CDC card? :)
ALL that from closing in the middle of the night which is the only time some can shop.
The idiocy continues.
Looks like the St Pat’s revelers in NOLA ain’t obeying their masters.
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_726b5fc2-663f-11ea-be0d-67ec08b4e3df.html
But warnings from the governor and Cantrell about avoiding close contact and large gatherings were scarcely heeded Saturday along Magazine Street, through the Irish Channel and Garden District, where the streets were bustling.
That’s why they leave pallets in the middle of aisle.
In order to limit my exposure to people, due to the fact I live with someone who is extremely vulnerable, I had planned to do my shopping then, as, I imagine, had many others.
Not to mention the reduced hours for already poor employees.
It would be better to limit the number of people who could be in the store at one time than to do this.
We are seeing the largest effort by the private sector to control disease that I have seen in my lifetime. Businesses are trying to help while still serving their customers.
Grow up.
Is this all locations ? I was just in one before 6 and there were no signs of reduced hours. Walking fast may not help the virus but it does get steps in for the day.
it is so they can stock the shelves, people don’t realize how long that takes, especially if empty, most stores have a night crew but it isn’t easy to double your crew so more stocking hours works.
work with a very large CPG food company, we have plenty of product and talked to my counterparts who make toilet paper and there is plenty of supply-they are making their sales numbers!-the challenge is shipping from warehouses and getting it on the shelf
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