Walmart Limits Customers Again; Grocers Limit Items

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Walmart has begun monitoring and counting the number of customers entering each store again, restricting capacity to about 20% of normal capacity as coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country.

This weekend, the retail chain resumed its policy from April, which restricts capacity to five customers for every 1,000 square feet, or about 20% of normal capacity. The company stopped counting for a few months but decided it was time to physically watch the number of people entering and leaving stores once again.

Several major grocery companies have also placed limits on some items again, such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Kroger and Publix have reinstated their limits on bath tissue and paper towels, CNBC reported. Grocery stores and retail chains are trying to anticipate safety measures and policies during the holiday season. Before Thanksgiving, people may rush to stores for last-minute food items and not follow typical public health precautions.

“We’ve been very thoughtful as we planned this year’s event,” Scott McCall, the executive vice president and chief merchandising officer for Walmart U.S.,

 

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This stuff is fine...but I am not seeing stores enforce the customers wearing masks policy. So if the CDC is still telling people to wear masks and store managers are not telling customers to wear masks or leave, how much good are you REALLY doing

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