3. Wal-Mart’s action
When we go into Wal-Mart’s official website, we can see at the top of site that there is a yellow bar. It claims the changes they have made in order to provides more convenience and benefits to customers in current situation.
They listened to many customers’ advice, supporting delivery and set many entrances for queuing customers for social distancing.
In the statement of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Wal-Mart decides to make many changes. For example, expanding paid leave policies, beginning temperature checks, start making gloves and masks for associates.
They have mad many changes and showing deeply care about their employee’s healthy. For social distancing, Wal-Mart regulate the number of customers who can be in a store at once. Once a store reaches its capacity, customers will be admitted inside on a “1-out-1-in” basis. To manage this restriction, store employees will mark queues on single-entry doors (in most cases, grocery store entrances) and take arriving customers directly there and count them one by one.
They listened advice from medical experts, associates and customers. They put a number of signage inside stores to remind everyone in the store of remaining social distancing – especially in lines. Moreover, once customers check out, they will be guided through a different door than when they entered, which will help reduce the situation of people approaching each other.
In my opinion, these adjustments are showing deeply care about their employees, customers and everyone else’ healthy. They try their best to reduce face to face contact as much as possible. I respect that, and I wish all customers respect that as well. Their effective management moved me. It’s amazing how they can regulate the customers orderly under this level of social panic. I respect their decision, and I wish all customers respect that as well. Their effective management moved me.
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