Walmart and Sam's Club join a growing list of retailers to make masks mandatory in stores. The National Retail Federation is urging all stores to adopt the same policy.
and others in implementing a nationwide requirement for customers to wear masks inside their stores. Walmart said it's creating a new job of"health ambassador," who will be specially trained to"work with customers who show up at a store without a face covering to try and find a solution."The National Retail Federation says it hopes Walmart's move is"a tipping point in this public health debate" and urged all retailers to adopt a similar policy.
"Shopping in a store is a privilege, not a right," the trade group said in a statement on Wednesday."If a customer refuses to adhere to store policies, they are putting employees and other customers at undue risk."on Wednesday, cited new spikes in coronavirus cases across the U.S. — four months since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. The company says some 65% of store locations are already in areas with"some form of government mandate on face coverings.
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