Walmart, Target, and other retailers impose dedicated hours to help at-risk shoppers
Customers queuing outside a Sainsbury’s store in the UK, which opened exclusively to elderly and vulnerable shoppers in its first hour. | Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images
Supermarket chains across the UK, US and elsewhere have started offering dedicated shopping hours for elderly or vulnerable customers during the coronavirus pandemic, The Guardian and USA Today are reporting. Some stores are also enforcing limits on the amount of items people can buy in one go, to prevent panic-buying.
For example, Walmart says its stores will open an hour early on Tuesday from March 24th through April 28th for customers over the age of 60. Other US stores, including Target and Whole Foods have introduced similar measures. USA Today has a lengthy list of the changes different US supermarkets are introducing. In the UK, meanwhile, Sainsbury’s and Tescos have introduced dedicated shopping hours for vulnerable people, as...
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