Posted on 04/03/2020 10:03:12 PM PDT by caww
Walmart announced it will limit the number of people inside its stores at the same time during the COVID-19 pandemic.....“Starting Saturday, we will limit the number of customers who can be in a store at once. Stores will now allow no more than five customers for each 1,000 square feet at a given time, roughly 20 percent of a store’s capacity,” according to a release. Store employees will start a line at a single-entry door and will tell customers to go there to queue. They will then be allowed in the store one-by-one, according to the company.
“Associates and signage will remind customers of the importance of social distancing while they’re waiting to enter a store–especially before it opens in the morning,” the store wrote.
Customers will be admitted inside one at a time when a store reaches capacity.
“We’ll also institute one-way movement through our aisles next week in a number of our stores, using floor markers and direction from associates. We expect this to help more customers avoid coming into close contact with others as they shop,” the Arkansas-based retailer said.
“And once customers check out, they will be directed to exit through a different door than they entered, which should help lessen the instances of people closely passing each other,” it said.
Target on Thursday announced a similar measure to promote social distancing as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus continues to spread.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
At this point, the mask is to keep people from sneezing and coughing on others.
1) When the stores are open they are more crowded and therefore more dangerous.
2) This makes it more difficult for those with a day job to get what they need.
How soft and self-centered we have become when a store sees folks aren’t taking a few simple precautions and decides to help out - which also protects it’s own staff, who keep the products available...a minor inconvenience, at a time when smart people are limiting contact -— and the crybabies come out of the woodwork...it’s better than the government doing the dictating....because some people are just too stupid/lazy/selfish to take a few simple precautions on their own.
Way to Go
while a few people are inside keeping far distances apart.
They waited in a crowded line outside first all breathing in each others germs.
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Exactly my thoughts... This has to be on purpose, they can’t be this stupid. Can they?
You never know what all those hands in the store have touched and what ends up on your groceries.
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Yes. There is a great youtube video on how to properly sanitize after a grocery run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-RIOXD2gjc
An older Russian Pastor once told me that there was a time, in Moscow, where you had to schedule your visit to the market to purchase our supplies.
You went to the government office with your list and arranged for a convenient time. If you missed it, you had to wait until next month. If they were out of items (normal) you would have to wait until next month.
I wonder, will they also assign an employee with a timer to follow each privileged shopper and evict any dawdlers when time’s up?
So? We’re not even close to the numbers the “experts” claim we’re headed for. Doesn’t mean it won’t happen soon.
The scrum outside my walmart yesterday was worse than anything inside. This new policy reeks of Walmart lawyering up. Squadrons of ambulance chasers are circling corporate America here. The Fearbros cheering this nonsense think these extreme measures solve a problem. In reality they do nothing and the problem is just starting.
“The ChiComs won.”
They won 15 years ago. I remember a hearing in Congress and one of Bush’s people was asked “So who our enemy now? Who the hell is our enemy, making us keep such a big military? Who are we worried about?”
Even thought China’s path was obvious by then, the Bush guy refused to say the five-letter word: CHINA. China defeated us that day. We never had that problem identifying the Soviets, except for a few hippie enclaves.
In reality they do nothing and the problem is just starting.
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This over-reaction by all levels will kill far more people than the Virus.
Exactly as China ordered...
It they’d ever get some stock online, maybe people would stop with the exposure of raiding the stores to find the shelves empty too.
You can start eating daisies and mushrooms, LOL.
I buy the GV branded Lactose Free 2% milk.
Not only for the lactose free part, but also because it keeps for ~ two months.
Scout's honor.
Good luck with that. Anything you can find in the store has been saying “in store purchase only”.
You are SO right - grocery shopping (or going into any store - home improvement, etc) is one of the highest risk ways to catch this.
A lot of people don’t seem to grasp yet that this spreads simply by BREATHING or TALKING, in addition to the obvious ways (someone coughs or sneezes and doesn’t cover..or, touches something [like a stock clerk] that you then pickup). Plus, the virus hangs in the air for up to 3 hours. So, infected person (who probably doesn’t realize they are infected as many cases are asymptomatic) walks down an aisle close to you..says hello..or asks the friendly grocery clerk where something is. You’ve been exposed..
I personally think Walmart has a really good idea here and would love to see my local Kroger and Home Depot do the same.
Walmart is the Antichrist. I hope every store burns.
They may mean well, but that there is a vector. Stores doing this should have a deli # type system, with the next admitting number displayed on some big board so people can wait in their cars until their turn rather than co-mingled with a bunch of potentially sick strangers. Appointments would be another tool to help avoid this. Having masks available is another additive.
I’m curious if you even LOOK AT the data.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
NY is not the only “dire” spot in the nation.
And, this thing is spreading like freaking wildfire through many different states at the moment. Maybe not your state, but there are a lot of us in deep trouble at this point..
Umm, yes we are. My wife told me about the lines yesterday, so I went to the local stupidmarket this morning and there were well over 30 people outside waiting at 7:30am. No exaggeration.
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