Kroger Ends Mask Requirement For Vaccinated Customers And Workers
If you shop at Kroger, you can forget your mask when grabbing your grocery list.
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If you shop at Kroger, you can forget your mask when grabbing your grocery list.
Kroger is offering $100 to each of its 500,000 workers who gets vaccinated against COVID-19.
Restricted travel has meant less opportunity for the flu virus to spread into Texas so far this winter.
As COVID-19 infections surge in Texas and across the country, sales at Kroger grocery stores are surging as Americans restock their pantries.
The free flu vaccinations are available through the end of 2020.
Kroger is only allowing customers to buy two of certain items like toilet paper and disinfecting wipes, supplies that were flying off store shelves as people panicked earlier this year.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen in Texas and across the country, a number of grocery store chains are again putting purchasing limits on items like disinfectants and paper goods.
Their collaborative effort will have the capacity to administer up to 600 vaccinations during the one-day event, according to Kroger.
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"We are taking this extra step now because we recognize additional precautions are needed to protect our country," the company said.
Don't expect to receive change in coins when you go to one grocery store. Kroger, a supermarket chain with hundreds of locations in Texas alone, has stopped giving customers coin change, citing the nationwide shortage.
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The coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 1,000 Texans rages on, but Kroger is already ending a modest "hero bonus" for the supermarket chain's workers.
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Kroger is now only allowing one customer for every 120 square feet. Walmart is allowing one customer for every 200 square feet.
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Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are now asking customers to not openly carry firearms inside their stores in states where it's legal, joining Walmart and Kroger who also made the public appeal.
Despite Open Carry being law in Texas since 2016, Kroger is now asking customers not to carry guns into its stores.
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It's called H3N1, and it can not only cause more severe illness in older adults, but it's also proving to be resistant to flu vaccines.
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