Customers will have to wear masks after July 20. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Following months of complaints from workers, Walmart will require customers to wear masks in stores, the company announced on Wednesday. Beginning July 20, “health ambassadors” will remind shoppers to wear masks, CNN reports; at Sam’s Club locations, associates will hand out complimentary masks to customers who aren’t wearing one.
Members of United for Respect, an advocacy group for retail workers, have been asking Walmart and other chains to enforce universal mask requirements, along with other safety measures, since March. In a survey of UFR’s members, only 9 percent said they could reliably practice social distancing at work in April; 2 in 5 respondents said they believed the company would protect workers and customers alike. Walmart waited another three months to listen.
Murray’s statement invokes a grim pandemic reality, and illustrates the possible deficiencies of Walmart’s proposed response. Not only is the mask requirement late, it also may place the onus of enforcement on workers themselves. That could be dangerous. Front line workers, a category that includes Walmart associates, have experienced rising levels of customer abuse. In at least one case, that abuse had deadly consequences.
I switched to all my local Ace and other small hardware stores and Chewy for wildbird and cat food. Easy peasy. Love my local hardware stores also Home Depot in a pinch. Walmart has gotten creepy. Drugs in parking lot & store inside feels ominous after shootings. No thanks
Is Walmart going to provide in-store support for the staff tasked with enforcing this rule?
Dying at Minimum Wage !! What a society we have !
Floridians are boycotting walmart for not understanding ones first amendment rights. They think they can be our big brother like their communist comrades in authoritarian hellscape China ccp. pathetic
What a sentence.
Shown worn incorrectly. Nice job
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