Ok ... now thing ARE more than critical -- starting to cut off the food supply to people. I'm tending to believe more and more that this virus is a means to control the populace. People ARE going to revolt - they are already starting to push back. The ONLY way that you can get delivery or curbside is with a credit card. How about all those who don't have a credit or debit card??? Sure you can get a temporary debit card with cash ... but if the stores close up, how are you going to even get one of those?
Secondly, I don't want people picking out my darn food. I'll go shop at a mom & pop store, until Big Brother decides to mandate shuttering them as well.
Experts say it may be time for grocery stores to ban customers from coming inside because of Covid-19Dozens of grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus, despite masks, temperature checks and capacity restrictions to keep them safe. So far, supermarkets have resisted the most draconian policy: banning customers from coming inside.
However, some worker experts, union leaders and small grocery owners believe it has become too dangerous to let customers browse aisles, coming into close range with workers. Grocery stores are still flooded with customers, and experts say it's time for large chains to go "dark" to the public and convert to curbside pickup and home delivery for food and other essential goods.
"Careless customers" are "probably the biggest threat" to workers right now, according to Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers' union. The union said 85% of its grocery store member workers reported that customers are not practicing social distancing in stores.
"Anything that reduces the need for interaction with the public and allows for greater physical distancing will ultimately better protect grocery workers," said John Logan, professor and director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University. "Shuttering stores and repurposing them for pickup and delivery only would be a positive step."
Many small, independent grocery stores have done this to protect their staff.
Mike Houston, general manager of Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-op in Takoma Park, Maryland, decided to close his grocery store to the public in late March, when the state announced a shelter-in-place order, and switch to curbside pickup...........
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/business/grocery-stores-coronavirus-pickup-delivery/index.html