Stores want shoppers to wear masks. But some customers refuse

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A handful of states and cities have mandated that shoppers wear coverings in grocery stores and other public places as they try to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

But retailers are struggling with how to convince their customers to follow the requirements. Major chains have yet to ban those who don't put on masks, even as labor advocates push for more protections for frontline workers.

Stores are reluctant to antagonize shoppers by turning them away.

Wegmans, for example, wants to minimize "the likelihood of conflicts in our stores" and will "not put our people in the position of having to deny entry to our stores," even in states where masks in public settings are required, a representative said.

At Stop & Shop, workers are telling customers who don't wear masks in the states where they are required to "expedite their shopping trip, and then requesting that they wear a mask next time," a spokesperson said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/newsfeature/stores-want-shoppers-to-wear-masks-but-some-customers-refuse/ar-BB135ixx?ocid=NL_ENUS_A1_20200426_2_2

[Voltaire2]

1. No shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service.

The hippy ban could certainly be extended.

[SoonerPride]

2. I was just about to post the same

No shoes
No shirt
No mask
No service

Pretty simple

[Hekate]

15. Exactly what I thought.How hard is that? & what is wrong with people they can't make the connection?

[MerryBlooms]

20. Exactly. Put a sign on the door, and refuse service.

Hard to do though, when the shithole Walmart isn't requiring staff to wear masks! I stopped shopping there ages ago, but can't get my idiot sister to stop the online delivery shopping. I want none of our money going to Walmart. I've been doing our weekly shopping at markets where the staff are protected and where I feel safe. Our local Winco and Albertson's have been the best as far as staff and customer safety. Walmart is the absolute worst and their store is filthy.

[kimbutgar]

3. All the stores where I live have signs saying no mask no admittance.

Wearing the mask for the last two weeks is now becoming a habit.

I’d rather wear a mask then die of this horrible virus.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Walmart, Stop&Shop and even 7-11 around here won't let you in without a mask...

I suspect their reasoning involves some version of "If you can't shop here, where you gonna go, asshole?"

[Mosby]

6. Walmart is doing no such thing.

Same with circle k and 711.

ETA in arizona.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. That's there. Here is here.

[Mosby]

5. Lawyers run the big chains.

Employees are prohibited from engaging a customer about anything other than product info.

[ret5hd]

8. Huhhh...try to video in a store ( other than...

maybe with a cellphone) and security/loss prevention will be confronting you within minutes telling you to leave or put the gear away.

[Jirel]

9. I'm cool with this.

Masks are somewhat helpful, but not so important as those who fetishize them insist. Wearing a mask, gloves, and/or other protective gear is an exercise in privilege. There are many places where poorer people, especially without bank, credit cards, or a job, have no realistic access to PPE. Certainly not to *effective* PPE. Wearing a shirt or bandanna across the face is nearly useless.

It is a good thing to strongly urge people to do it. It is not ok to make it into a pretext to deny, harass, fine, or even jail poor folks, especially people of color, who don’t. Many areas hardest hit are urban and home to a lot of poor folks and people of color.

Rather than assuming the worst and tut-tutting at everyone who doesn’t wear a mask, think for a second that not everyone is equally able to wear meaningful protection, and that for some you are creating even more barriers to necessary goods and services.

[Rae]

12. Nancy Pelosi wears a scarf

And they DO help. Anything helps to reduce the viral load of what your are potentially exhaling and inhaling. And viral load can be critical to outcomes.

[gristy]

13. No

Wearing a shirt or bandanna across the face is NOT nearly useless

[TomSlick]

22. We wear face covering in public to protect others.

A cloth mask or disposable paper mask provides some protection to the wearer. However, the primary purpose is to protect the public from asymptomatic people who are nevertheless infected and shedding the virus.

There is no excuse for not wearing some face covering in public. Useful coverings can be made from a bandana or sock. To not wear some sort of face covering is simply a failure of consideration for others.

[JCMach1]

10. No mask, no service

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Charge a fee.

If you won't wear a mask then you pay a fee of a certain percentage of your shopping receipt, say 5% or whatever the store deems appropriate. Post it on signs in the store at the entrance, down the isles and at the cash register and call it a public health fee. Why not?

[Rae]

16. Because you shouldn't have to the option

Of paying to make others sick. That's why not.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Point taken. nt

[northoftheborder]

14. If the time ever comes when I feel comfortable shopping....

I will refuse to go in a store that lets people shop without a mask (and will make my opinions known to the store.)

[FelineOverlord]

18. Stores want shoppers to wear masks. But some customers refuse

At my local Target, you have to wait in a line outside before you can enter the store.

There are both a local POLICE OFFICER and a store worker outside making sure you are wearing some kind of mask or bandanna, which is absolutely required.

You must wait in the line six feet apart. There are blue tapes on the sidewalk.

[miyazaki]

19. Some here argued against masks awhile back

It was nothing to do with depriving the medical industry. It was mostly that the masks were next to useless they argued. Ya it was a daily thing.

[Victor_c3]

21. A majority of store and restaurant workers here don't wear masks

I’m really shocked, especial that food service workers aren’t required to.

I’m currently residing in northwest Ohio, so maybe it’s a trumper-MAGAT thing??