As COVID-19 is growing in US, retailers across the nation are taking more steps to avoid it. Target, having 1,900 stores, has announced new safety measures to help reduce the spread of the Coronavirus.
Effective from today (4 April), the retailer will actively monitor and, when needed, meter guest traffic in all its stores to promote social distancing.
Besides, it will supply face masks and gloves at work to its more than 350,000 team members in stores and distribution centres.
John Mulligan, Executive VP and COO of the company informed, “We’re incredibly proud of the commitment our more than 350,000 frontline team members have demonstrated to ensure millions of guests can count on Target, and we will continue to focus our efforts on supporting them.”
He added “The measures that we are announcing today are aimed at ensuring we are creating a safe environment for the guests who continue to turn to Target, while also providing our team with additional resources as they fulfil an essential service in communities across the country.”
So far, Target has implemented enhanced benefits to support its team members, like it invested more than US $ 300 million, including higher hourly wages for frontline team members through at least 2 May, which amounts to US $ 240-US $ 480 per team member.
Also, for the first time, Target is paying out bonuses to the 20,000 team leads who manage individual departments in stores.
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