What's In Store: Groceries Installing Protective Plastic Shields At Checkouts
QUINCY, Mass. (AP) Grocery stores across the U.S. are installing protective plastic shields at checkouts to help keep cashiers and shoppers from infecting one another with the coronavirus.
At a Stop & Shop supermarket Thursday in Quincy, just south of Boston, shoppers paid for and bagged their groceries, separated from employees by newly installed see-through barriers.
I think its a great protection for customers ... and the cashiers, said Jasmine Vazquez, a home health aide shopping for a client. Were supposed to be 6 feet away, but were closer to them. So that protection helps, and I feel safer.
The measures are all about safety for our customers and our associates, Stop & Shop spokeswoman Jennifer Brogan said.
When youre checking out, theres not a 6-foot distance as recommended by the CDC between the cashier and the customer, she said. So weve added that as protection as a shield between the two.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, or death.
Also installing plastic are Giant Eagle grocery stores in Ohio, as well as Walmart and the Kroger supermarket chain, which said sneeze guards will be erected at all its more than 2,700 stores in the next few weeks as the outbreak intensifies.
The Florida-based Publix supermarket chain said Wednesday that all 1,200 locations will have partitions installed at the cash registers, customer service desks and pharmacies within two weeks....
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SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)checkout station, protects the workers and the customers. A good idea.
appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)opposed to the idiot actions by rump).
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Doing this locally. She had to run to the grocery and the shields were up and they and all other surfaces were wiped down after each customer.
appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)msongs
(67,462 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)you're not supposed to bring your own bags anymore?
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)is with a credit or debit card at a terminal just outside the sneeze guard zone, but what about people who want to pay with cash?
Also, doesn't the cashier have to hand you a receipt? I suppose it could be put in a bag with the groceries, but cashiers have to be instructed to do that, and shoppers have to be educated that will be done.
kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)And you have to bag your own groceries.