Walmart is making a permanent change to its stores due to coronavirus

• Retailers have been making major changes to their operation in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, like controlling how many shoppers are inside at any one time in order to maintain adequate social distancing.
• Walmart has just announced that one of the coronavirus-inspired changes it's made will stay in place indefinitely.
• It's the special hour set aside for elderly and vulnerable shoppers so they don't have to fight the crowds.

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I visited a Walmart store near me during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, and I found it to be generally pretty early about making coronavirus-related changes to its operation compared to other, similar retailers.

This was the first retailer near me that also carried groceries which adjusted its operating hours, for example, in addition to limiting the number of people who could be inside the store at any one time. It was the first place I encountered an employee at the door with a clicker only allowing a few shoppers in at a time, as well as giant speakers outside blaring constant messages from the Walmart CEO on a loop, in a kind of dystopian "thank you for your cooperation" style. Another of the changes included carving out a portion of the store's operating hours to serve only the elderly and vulnerable populations -- a coronavirus-inspired change which Walmart is now keeping in place indefinitely.

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