Both of the employees worked at a Chicago-area store and reportedly had underlying health issues.
“We have been concerned to still see some behaviors in our stores that put undue risk on our people,” Walmart’s executive vice president and chief operating officer Dacona Smith said in a Friday blog post. “We want to encourage customers to bring the fewest number of people per family necessary to shop.”
The company’s changes were implemented the same day that it confirmed the deaths of two employees who worked at a store in Evergreen Park, Illinois.
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