From USA Today:
“Masks required: Walmart, Target
among retailers adding face masks requirements due to COVID-19. See the full
list.”
The nation's largest retailers
are now requiring what some states and cities won't: the use of face masks. Walmart,
Target, CVS, Walgreens and Kroger are the biggest to announce they will soon
mandate masks at stores nationwide joining the list of businesses with face
covering requirements growing as COVID-19 cases rise. The coronavirus causes
the disease COVID-19. Nearly 40 states now require masks in public places with
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado adding mandates and Ohio requiring masks in a dozen
counties. One state went in the opposite direction this week when Georgia Gov.
Brian Kemp suspended all local government mask orders Wednesday. Individual businesses can choose to institute
further restrictions and the National Retail Federation is encouraging
retailers to set nationwide mask policies to protect shoppers and employees. Retailers
requiring masks isn't new – especially in areas with local orders – but few
businesses have embraced mandates before this month. Shoppers have been
required to wear masks to enter Costco and Apple stores across the nation since
early May. Starbucks kicked off the new mask announcements last week and
started requiring masks Wednesday along with Best Buy and Panera Bread
locations nationwide. In a recent Harris Poll survey about businesses mandating
masks found 76% of Americans want businesses to “exact and enforce” their own
mandatory policies, with 80% saying they are more likely to do business with a
company if they require all customers and employees to wear a face mask during
the pandemic. Marc Perrone, president of America’s largest food and retail
union, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents
1.3 million workers, said the companies' actions are "not nearly enough to
turn the tide as COVID-19." Across the country, every governor and mayor
must step up and make masks mandatory at all supermarkets and retail
stores," Perrone said in a statement. "Without universal mask
mandates that are fully enforced nationwide, hundreds of thousands of Americans
will continue to get sick and die. We cannot wait any longer." This week's
announcement starting rolling out a day after Dr. Robert Redfield, director of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said if the American public
were to embrace masking now the pandemic could be brought to heel in less than
two months. "If we could get everybody to wear a mask right now, I really
do think over the next 4-6-8 weeks, I really think we can bring this under
control," he said in an interview Tuesday with the editor-in-chief of the
Journal of the American Medical Association.
These stores, businesses now
require masks
Apple, Best Buy, Costco, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, H-E-B, Menards, Panera Bread .Starbucks, Verizon
Here's when mask requirements
start:
BJ's Wholesale Club: Starts
Monday, July 20.
CVS: Starts Monday, July 20.
Kohl's: Starts Monday, July 20.
Kroger: Starts Wednesday, July 22. (The grocer
operates nearly 2,800 stores with several regional supermarket chains in 35
states, including Fred Meyer, Harris Teeter, Ralphs, Mariano's, Fry's, Smith's,
King Soopers, QFC and others.)
Publix: Starts Tuesday, July 21.
Sam's Club: Starts Monday, July
20.
Schnuck Markets: Starts Monday,
July 20.
Target: Starts Aug. 1.
Walgreens: Starts Monday, July
20.
Walmart: Starts Monday, July 20.
^ I don’t understand why anyone
would be against wearing a mask. It is not required in my State, but I have
worn one from the beginning. Only covididiots are against keeping themselves,
their families and everyone else safe. ^
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