Walmart will limit customers and create one-way traffic inside its stores at NBC News. "...only five customers per 1,000 square feet can enter a Walmart, which will be about 20 percent of each locale's listed capacity...And in many stores...markers will be put down to direct shoppers to one-way foot traffic "so to help more customers avoid coming into close contact with others as they shop," according to (Dacona) Smith." Read more   CVS launches drive-thru rapid testing in Rhode Island and Georgia at CNBC. "The new sites will be open to all patients, but in order to receive an [...]

  Vermont tells big-box retailers to stop selling nonessential products at WCVB 5 ABC. "Large ‘big box’ retailers generate significant shopping traffic by virtue of their size and the variety of goods offered in a single location,” Agency of Commerce and Community Development Secretary Lindsay Kurrle said. “This volume of shopping traffic significantly increases the risk of further spread of this dangerous virus to Vermonters and the viability of Vermont’s health care system." Read more   Amazon will start taking workers’ temperatures and provide face masks after public outcry at CNBC. "Temperature checks began last Sunday at select sites in [...]

  Traffic at Walmart, Costco and Target falls for the first time in weeks as coronavirus stockpiling behavior shifts at MarketWatch. "Walmart traffic was down 6.7% year-over-year for the third week of March...At Costco traffic fell 8.7% year-over-year for the third week of March...And at Target, traffic slumped 20.5% in the third week of March..." Read more   Hourly Amazon workers, fearing coronavirus risks, wonder why they must staff empty office buildings by Benjamin Romano at Seattle Times. "We couldn’t go home with pay because we’re considered essential,” the receptionist said, adding that there are about 130 people in her [...]