Trader Joe's has cut senior hours at most of its stores. Walmart, Target, BJ's Wholesale Club and Aldi are among retailers still promoting special senior hours on their websites.
Instead, Costco said at the time the hours would continue indefinitely. Last summer, Costco originally announced plans to reduce the special hours to twice per week in July 2020 but didn't cut the hours as cases spiked. When clubs resumed normal hours in early May 2020, clubs extended the senior hours to weekday mornings at most locations. Like most of the nation's major grocery stores, Costco started designating special shopping hours in March 2020 to help those the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considered most vulnerable and at-risk for COVID-19.Ĭostco started its senior hours as a twice-weekly event and quickly extended to three times a week.
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The update comes as the number of new coronavirus infections is rising in all 50 states and hospitalizations nationwide are increasing at an alarming rate, according to Johns Hopkins University data released last week. ► Diversity of America’s food retail executives: Coke, Costco, Pepsi and Starbucks officials still mostly white and male
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►Free college: Target joins Walmart in paying for college for employees free books also included Tuesday and Thursday, the retailer posted on its COVID-19 updates page. Starting the week of July 26, the reserved shopping time at most clubs for senior shoppers, members with disabilities or those who are immunocompromised will be 9 to 10 a.m. "Instead of discontinuing, we'll maintain hours for seniors Tuesdays and Thursdays, until further notice," Richard Galanti, Costco’s chief financial officer, told USA TODAY. Weeks after announcing it would end the senior hours on July 26, the retailer changed course and is instead reducing them from five days a week to twice-weekly events. Costco Wholesale will continue to hold special operating hours for members 60 and older and vulnerable shoppers while the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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