Many retailers will still require masks – at least for now – even with new CDC guidance
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Trader Joe s says fully vaccinated customers don t have to wear masks in stores
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Most national retail chains are keeping masks in place. Walmart and Trader Joe’s aren’t
Target, Home Depot and CVS are among the retailers that will continue to require masks in store.
Emma Lloyd, 18, and Harper Jones, 18, leave Whole Foods Market on Abrams Rd as they wear masks even after COVID-19 mandates were lifted in March by Texas officials. Competitor Trader Joe s said Friday it will no longer require masks.(Lola Gomez)
By The Washington Post via Bloomberg
3:51 PM on May 14, 2021 CDT
Many of the country’s largest retailers will keep requiring masks in their stores despite eased national restrictions, though industry groups and workers’ advocates fear enforcement will become increasingly difficult and contentious.
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BUSINESS GROUPS CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED BY CDC MASK GUIDANCE: The Biden administration’s announcement Thursday that fully vaccinated Americans can ditch their masks in most situations is undoubtedly a major milestone in the country’s fight against Covid-19. But trade groups representing the businesses, and a union representing the workers who will now be tasked with enforcing mask-wearing for unvaccinated people, are now scrambling to parse what the guidance means for their members.
Larry Lynch, who as senior vice president of science and industry for the National Restaurant Association handles its Covid operating guidance, said in an interview that the new recommendations may be the industry’s biggest challenge yet. “We don t know how to be the vaccine police,” he said. “CDC didn t do us didn t do the industry, any big favors,” he added, though “it certainly helped consumers.”