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In the SF south bay area stores have been very uneven across the board with respect to sanitizing and rate limiting customers. Some seem to be faster and start
by gwittel 7y ago
In the SF south bay area stores have been very uneven across the board with respect to sanitizing and rate limiting customers. Some seem to be faster and started early (e.g. Trader Joe's) while others are doing little.
A few days ago was the first time I saw that most (not all) Whole Foods workers had PPE (mask, gloves). I'm hoping its a supply issue, but wouldn't be surprised if it was a corporate "don't scare people" issue.
While I strongly prefer to select my food for quality, I'd be happy for workers' sake if stores were pure pickup only (basically a local warehouse) with enough slots for everyone to get what they need; leaving delivery for those who really need it. But stores are just not equipped to handle that sort of operation.
- novok 7y agoAre the trader joes still not allowing the employees to wear masks & gloves / do you see any of the cashiers wearing them? When we talked to one cashier, before they started the lineup process, he said he wasn't allowed to wear a mask / gloves and it freaked him out, while he was liberally applying hand sanitizer to his hands. I haven't been inside one since that day, which is why I'm asking.
- gwittel 7y agoI’ve seen gloves regularly but not masks. No plexiglass dividers either. As the state guidance is now to wear masks when out (with stores free to turn away non masked customers) I hope they let employees use what they want (and supply it).
- mortenjorck 7y agoI went to a Trader Joe’s last week and the policy appeared to have flipped: I didn’t see a single employee without a mask on. Every register had been outfitted with plexiglass as well.
- gwittel 7y agoInteresting. Maybe it’s still being rolled out. They didn’t have this in SNV recently.
- Consultant32452 7y agoAt The Fresh Market, I got an email that starting tomorrow employees AND customers will be required to wear masks.
- bilbo0s 7y agoIt's not really a "don't scare people issue". (At least I know it's not in some cases.) A lot of stores out there, when times were good, bought stylish new point of sale machines. These machines came with what were touted as "future proof" touch interfaces at the time. People have found that some of these devices don't actually work if you have gloves on. So at the store I'm familiar with, there is a complicated sanitizing and distancing procedure that everyone is supposed to go through when checking people out. Not surprisingly, strict adherence to a multistep process is not as consistent as just having everyone put on gloves. On the plus side, learning more about it has helped me wrap my head around the sort of things that will inform successful post covid design.
- triceratops 7y agoI'm curious, how do gloves help protect you from Covid? It's not transmitted through the skin, and you will get just as sick if you touch your face with bare hands as with gloved hands.
- brian-armstrong 7y agoYou're less likely to touch your face with gloves on, at any rate
- thinkingemote 7y agoIt protects others from you and it's also harder to touch face when wearing them (try it). Also you might have a little paper cut...
- WillPostForFood 7y agoThe value of gloves is they help keep your hands clean. If you don't wear gloves, you are reliant on a good hand wash to get the virus off. You can miss spots, it can get under your nails. Gloves aren't going to help if you are touching your face with them, but they allow for a better decontamination process.
- tomjen3 7y agoYou can throw your gloves away pretty easily. I can't discard my hands several times a day when out and about.