We are following the new guidelines set out by Governor Murphy.
Essential retail businesses that are still permitted to operate under Executive Order No. 107 (2020) must adopt the following policies:
Limit occupancy at 50 percent of the stated maximum store capacity, if applicable, at one time.
Establish hours of operation, wherever possible, that permit access solely to high-risk individuals, as defined by the CDC.
Install a physical barrier, such as a shield guard, between customers and cashiers/baggers wherever feasible or otherwise ensure six feet of distance between those individuals, except now of payment and/or exchange of goods.
Require infection control practices, such as regular hand washing, coughing and sneezing etiquette, and proper tissue usage and disposal.
Provide employees break time for repeated handwashing throughout the workday.
Arrange for contactless pay options, pickup, and/or delivery of goods wherever feasible. Such policies shall, wherever possible, consider populations that do not have access to internet service.
Provide sanitization materials, such as hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes, to staff and customers.
Require frequent sanitization of high-touch areas like restrooms, credit card machines, keypads, counters and shopping carts.
Place conspicuous signage at entrances and throughout the store, if applicable, alerting staff and customers to the required six feet of physical distance.
Demarcate six feet of spacing in check-out lines to demonstrate appropriate spacing for social distancing.
Require workers and customers to wear cloth face coverings while on the premises, except where doing so would inhibit that individual’s health or where the individual is under two years of age and require workers to wear gloves when in contact with customers or goods. Businesses must provide, at their expense, such face coverings and gloves for their employees. If a customer refuses to wear a cloth face covering for non-medical reasons andif such covering cannot be provided to the individual by the business at the point of entry,then the business must decline entry to the individual, unless if the business is providingmedication, medical supplies, or food, in which case the business policy should providealternate methods of pickup and/or delivery of such goods. Nothing in the stated policyshould prevent workers or customers from wearing a surgical-grade mask or other moreprotective face covering if the individual is already in possession of such equipment, or ifthe business is otherwise required to provide such worker with more protective equipmentdue to the nature of the work involved. Where an individual decline to wear a facecovering on store premises due to a medical condition that inhibits such usage, neither theessential retail business nor its staff shall require the individual to produce medical documentation verifying the stated condition.
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