The retail shopping experience has had to change during the pandemic to help reduce the opportunity for the virus to spread. Various stores and businesses have managed to implement their own new systems, but the upcoming holiday season could quickly uproot these changes. That’s why some stores are rolling back to their early pandemic precautions. In fact, Walmart just announced that they’re reinstating this COVID safety measure: limiting store capacity to just 20 percent. Read on to find out why Walmart is making the change, and for more recent news from this major retailer, find out What Walmart Will Finally Start Selling in All 50 States.Walmart will go back to limiting the number of customers inside its stores to just 20 percent of the store’s capacity during this year’s Black Friday shopping experience, Bloomberg reported. The retailer originally made this same change back at the beginning of April to “encourage social distancing,” but eased up on this strict capacity over the last few months—moving to only limiting the number of people based on “various state and local ordinances.”
Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year every year, bringing in massive crowds like you’ve never seen before. And that’s exactly what Walmart is trying to avoid by implementing this new, reinvented Black Friday experience. To find out what other changes Walmart is making during this year’s shopping holiday, keep reading, and for more retail news you might have missed, discover which Popular Discount Chain Is Launching a New Shopping Experience.
“Customers trust Walmart to deliver an amazing Black Friday year after year. Although this year’s event looks different, our commitment to what our customers depend on us for—the absolute best prices of the season on hot gifts from top brands—hasn’t changed,” Scott McCall, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer for Walmart U.S., said in a statement. And for more recent Walmart news, check out Walmart’s Exciting New Surprise for These 6 States.
For the first event, Walmart will offer deals on “toys, electronics, and home products” starting online Nov. 4. The first indoor savings event will begin in stores three days later on Nov. 7. For the second event, deals will begin online Nov. 11 and enter in-store Nov. 14. And the last event will coincide with actual Black Friday, as deals will start online Nov. 25 and arrive in-store on Nov. 27. And for more holiday retail news, find out Which Beloved Brand Target Is Bringing Back for Christmas.
“I’m really excited that this year, when it matters most to our customers, we’re offering them more convenient and safer ways to shop Black Friday at Walmart, whether that’s from the shelf in one of our stores, ordering online and picking it up curbside, or having it delivered right to their front door,” McCall said.