Is Walmart the Tipping Point on Masks? Let’s Hope So
The retail giant just helped the nation take an important step toward getting mask-wearing to be a routine behavior in all sorts of public domains.
If you’re heading to Walmart, don’t forget your mask.
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/BloombergPolitics have been getting in the way of Americans broadly adopting a crucial preventative health measure: Wearing a mask in public to curb the spread of Covid-19. Now, though, the experts that have been urging that practice have an enormously powerful ally in Walmart Inc.
The big-box retailing giant said Wednesday it would require customers at its eponymous stores and Sam’s Club chain to wear face coverings. While some 65% of its locations were already doing this to comply with local regulations, it will make it mandatory at all stores nationwide beginning July 20.