During this Corona Virus outbreak, Grocery and General Merchandise Stores, as well as Fast Food Restaurants are doing their best to give the best service to customers in their time of need for food and supplies. At Walmart, the store has started to make some adjustments both inside and outside of the store. Before the Corona Virus situation, the Walmart at 1330 Goldfish Farm Rd. in Albany, OR, used to stay open for 24 hours, 7 days of the week. Now, the Albany Walmart use barricades between the entrances and exits for both the Grocery side and the General Merchandise side of the store to promote social distancing, another thing that Walmart uses to promote social distancing are signs that are placed on the floors, on the walls, and on the registers. The store has shut down some of the machines that involve physical contact, such as the water fountains, and the arcade claw machines to keep customers from either spreading the virus towards other customers. Registers, Service Desks, and the Pharmacy Counter use plexiglass to keep customers from spreading the Corona Virus by breathing it out. Walmart Managers, and Associates are recommended to wear face mask to inspire Walmart shoppers to wear face mask as well. Before all of this, when the Corona Virus outbreak started around March, the store's first example to promote social distancing was to limit the amount of customers by making the customers wait in line outside of the store. When the maximum capacity of customers inside the store was reached, and when a customer is done shopping, the next customer, (or one group of customers,) waiting in line outside is then let inside. Here are two Walmart Associates who contribute a lot of their time towards working for Walmart, while working around customers during the Corona Virus outbreak.
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Liz Bahl, 71
Liz is an AP Host at the Albany Walmart, Liz works at Walmart for 9 years now. Liz's duties as being an AP Host includes greeting customers when they head inside the store, as well as checking customers' receipts to see if the customer remembered to scan any items before buying them, and when Liz is done scanning the customers' receipts, Liz then tells the customers to have a good rest of their day. Recently, with the whole Corona Virus situation, Liz starts off her day at work by getting her temperature checked at the Associate Screening room to see if she has any of the symptoms caused by Corona Virus, and when Liz is good to go, Liz then clocks in for work, gets her equipment, and then she uses her tablet to count how many customers walk in and out of the store. Stay safe at work, Liz, and thank you for all you do to help customers during the Corona Virus outbreak.
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Brian Drew, 62
Brian is a Maintenance Associate at the Albany Walmart, Brian works at Walmart for 7 1/2 years now. Brian's duties as a Maintenance Associate includes cleaning inside, and outside of the store. Most of the tasks that Brian does when he is at work involves cleaning the floors, cleaning the restrooms, cleaning up spills, cleaning up broken glass, taking out the trash inside and outside of the store, and whenever the store is busier than usual, Brian usually helps the Courtesy Associates bring in shopping carts until he is needed to go back inside the store to clean up whatever is needed to be cleaned up once again. During the Corona Virus outbreak, Brian also starts his day at work by getting his temperature checked, then he goes to the maintenance station to get the cleaning supplies, and then he goes to work by cleaning whatever needs to be cleaned inside or outside the store. Even though Walmart has made changes for some of the associates have that have to work with the customers, Brian just keeps on cleaning around the store as if it were any other normal day at work. Thank you for all you do Brian, stay safe, and thank you for your service during this time of the Corona Virus.
A special thanks to Store Manager, Paul Redmond, for giving me permission to take photos around Walmart. Another special thanks to the Walmart Associates who let me take their photos as well.
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