The retailer's latest efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus may take weeks to go into effect -- and workers say more is needed.
, including taking employees’ temperatures as they report to work and offering masks and gloves to any associate who wants to wear them.
Infrared thermometers are still being shipped to stores, and the temperature scanning may not go into effect for another three weeks. The masks, which are notA shopper looks at a cleaned-out toilet paper aisle in a Phoenix Walmart, March 20. Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, has kept its 4,756 U.S. stores open, but with reduced hours to allow additional time for cleaning and restocking.
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