{"id":203685,"date":"2020-07-15T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=203685"},"modified":"2020-07-15T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:23:51","slug":"walmart-to-require-customers-in-wear-face-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=203685","title":{"rendered":"Walmart to require customers to wear face masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196484\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Homemade-face-mask-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Homemade-face-mask-photo.jpg 280w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Homemade-face-mask-photo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Homemade-face-mask-photo-175x175.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Walmart will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam\u2019s Club stores, making it the largest retailer to introduce such a policy that has otherwise proven difficult to enforce without state and federal requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the policy will go into effect on Monday July 20, 2020 to allow time to inform customers. About 65% of its more than 5,000 stores and clubs are located in areas where there is already some form of government mandate on face coverings. Walmart joins a growing but still short list of retailers, including most recently Best Buy, to require masks at all of its stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Walmart will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam\u2019s Club stores, making it the largest retailer to introduce such a policy that has otherwise proven difficult to enforce without state and federal requirements. The company said the policy will go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203704,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203685\/revisions\/203704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}