Walmart to limit customers in stores to encourage social distancing - New York Post

Walmart will begin limiting the number of customers inside stores Saturday to encourage social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Only five customers per 1,000 feet will be allowed in, and workers will be tasked with admitting them one-by-one into the store, according to Reuters.

“While many of our customers have been following the advice of the medical community regarding social distancing and safety, we have been concerned to still see some behaviors in our stores that put undue risk on our people,” Dacona Smith, Walmart’s executive vice president and COO, said in a statement Friday.

Walmart also expects to implement one-way movement through aisles in some stores sometime during the week to limit customers’ contact with each other while shopping, the statement said.

Shoppers wearing masks and gloves wait to checkout at a Walmart in Uniondale, New York, on Friday.Al Bello/Getty Images

The company also began providing masks, gloves, and thermometers to workers to prevent them from working with the coronavirus, Walmart execs said Tuesday.

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