{"id":203737,"date":"2020-07-16T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=203737"},"modified":"2020-07-16T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:45:25","slug":"target-joining-other-retailers-requiring-face-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=203737","title":{"rendered":"Target joining other retailers, requiring face masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Target is joining the list of the nation\u2019s largest retailers that will require customers to wear masks as cases of COVID-19 spike. <strong>The policy will go into effect Aug. 1.<\/strong> More than 80% of Target\u2019s 1,800 stores already require customers to wear masks due to local and state regulations. Target said Thursday that it will hand out masks at entrances to those who need them. The nation\u2019s largest retailer, Walmart, announced this week that masks would be mandatory in all stores starting Monday. Starbucks, Best Buy, Kohl\u2019s and Kroger Co. also have put mandatory face shield rules in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Target is joining the list of the nation\u2019s largest retailers that will require customers to wear masks as cases of COVID-19 spike. The policy will go into effect Aug. 1. More than 80% of Target\u2019s 1,800 stores already require customers to wear masks due to local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203737","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\/203737","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=203737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203739,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203737\/revisions\/203739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}