Part 2 Edition-per T.R.’s request because to much scrolling. :yes: Check out latest agenda plan ... no customers should be allowed in stores ... and we know this is all leading to no paper money accepted - only wireless transactions. B-) Experts say it may be time for grocery stores to ban customers from coming inside because of Covid-19 By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business. Updated 10:47 PM ET, Sun April 19, 2020 (NewYork CNN Business) Dozens of grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus, despite masks, temperature checks and capacity restrictions to keep them safe. So far, supermarkets have resisted the most draconian policy: banning customers from coming inside. However, some worker experts, union leaders and small grocery owners believe it has become too dangerous to let customers browse aisles, coming into close range with workers. Grocery stores are still flooded with customers, and experts say it's time for large chains to go "dark" to the public and convert to curbside pickup and home delivery for food and other essential goods. "Anything that reduces the need for interaction with the public and allows for greater physical distancing will ultimately better protect grocery workers," said John Logan, professor and director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University. "Shuttering stores and repurposing them for pickup and delivery only would be a positive step." Many small, independent grocery stores have done this to protect their staff. Mike Houston, general manager of Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-op in Takoma Park, Maryland, decided to close his grocery store to the public in late March, when the state announced a shelter-in-place order, and switch to curbside pickup. "It was clearer that there was no real way to protect my staff and the public, especially as we served 960 people a day on average in a 4,200-square-foot store," Houston said. "I'm unwilling to put grocery store employees, essential though we are, in a position to risk what can be a fatal infection." Some large companies like Best Buy (BBY), which has a strong online infrastructure, have also switched over to this model during the crisis. New regulations Some big grocers are slowly starting to move in this direction. Whole Foods has closed down a store in New York City's Bryant Park area and transitioned it into an online-only store, focused solely on deliveries. Kroger (KR) and Giant Eagle have switched a few stores to pickup and delivery-only locations. But these are a fraction of stores in their wide networks. And most large chains have hesitated to shut down to the public. Instead, they are implementing more limited policies like taking workers' temperatures and restricting the number customers inside stores at a time. Companies are calling on families to cut back on their trips to the store and shop alone if they can. City and state governments are stepping in to force stricter safety measures than the companies have adopted. Los Angeles, Miami, Washington DC, New Jersey, Maryland and New York have ordered shoppers to wear masks or face coverings in stores. Vermont has required big box chains like Walmart to close down their "non-essential" sections like furniture, home and garden equipment and arts and crafts. Will pickup and delivery-only work? "We have no choice. They have to stay open. [America's grocery] delivery system has not matured to the point where we can switch to an entirely remote system," said Seth Harris, former deputy secretary of labor during the Obama administration. Online pickup and delivery requires a much larger staff than grocery stores are currently equipped with. That could fill supermarkets to capacity with workers, defeating the purpose of removing the public from stores. Paying that many workers would also cost grocers a lot more money, and many smaller chains don't have the resources. They have already hired more workers during the pandemic to meet demand, and they're raising pay for existing employeesto convince them to stay on the job. Grocers operate on razor-thin margins, and for many, the recent increase in sales because of coronavirus has been wiped out by the increases they've needed to make in payroll. "I think that's one of the major reasons chains are reluctant to do the switch," said Logan from San Francisco State University. Switching to online pickup and delivery may also burden low-income customers who can't afford fees that often come with these orders, customers without internet access and food stamp recipients. Most food stamp recipients are ineligible to use their assistance to purchase groceries online, although the Department of Agriculture has doubled the number of states that allow food recipients to order online in the past few weeks. And converting to online-only may not completely solve the safety problem either because an influx of gig workers would have to be in the store to pick and fulfill all of the orders. It's an imperfect solution, said Charlane Obernauer, executive director of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health. "Workers would still have exposure if they are delivering goods or if they are in the supermarket." Still, in Malvern, Iowa, Mulholland Groceryhas stopped allowing customers inside and moved to curbside pickup. "We're in a small town. The employees that I have, they're just like family. I have known many of these people my whole life. I don't want to take the chance of having someone get sick," said owner Tom Mulholland. "There are very few businesses that get the foot traffic that a grocery store does." Mulholland and Mike Houston in Maryland say their staffs are working harder than ever to select all of their customers' orders, but they're getting more efficient each day and the trade-off is worth it to keep everyone safe. "Any store still allowing hundreds of members of the public to enter every day is taking a calculated risk on behalf of their front line staff," Houston said. "That is highly irresponsible to me." - Fair Use - CNN — fake news! Trying to increase the hype. The deaths are certainly not increased any more for this group over any other group with multiple co-morbidities. I have been in the grocery store weekly, I am not seeing this as truth, Lowe’s even is practicing physical distancing, as is Walmart. It’s the medianites at it again, trying to drum up panic to sell fake news to an uneducated public. Lord, we need to go! This insanity is driving us insane —- now that’s an oxymoron if I ever heard one :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: Thanks for the new thread! Much appreciated! They are milking this for all it's worth! It won't stop! I'm still amazed at how many are buying into this! We aren't called sheep for nothing. Better we continue to wait upon the Lord with every assurance. And hear what the Spirit will next say! Perhaps a trumpet!? I say May or September, at the latest! The enemy has planned well and long, but will not frustrate the plans or timing of God! TR On July 1st .... ”Netanyahu, as the presiding prime minister, will be allowed to bring the issue of extending sovereignty to territories identified in the Trump peace plan — named “Peace to Prosperity” :whistle: :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn Per Savedat33 ————————- The move to exercise sovereignty over territory identified in the U.S. plan could mark a major unilateral step to reshape the region. It could also give Trump a political win among his base of pro-Israel and evangelical supporters ahead of the elections in November. In a deal struck in Israel on Monday for a “national emergency government,” head of the Blue and White political party Benny Gantz signed an agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that, in part, allows talks for annexation to move forward. The agreement on annexation is the only policy outside of the coronavirus that can be discussed within the first six months of the unity government, according to a summary of the terms. The Trump peace plan and annexation were key sticking points in negotiations between the two leaders after a year of three successive but inconclusive elections. “In allowing Netanyahu freedom of action on this, Gantz has made a major policy concession to Netanyahu on an issue of long-term consequence,” said Natan Sachs, Director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Beginning July 1, Netanyahu, as the presiding prime minister, will be allowed to bring the issue of extending sovereignty to territories identified in the Trump peace plan — named “Peace to Prosperity” — for a discussion among the security Cabinet and a vote in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. The specifics of any discussion are unclear, including whether it will call for beginning steps for unilateral annexation, only voting on an agreement on annexation in principle or the opportunity to reject unilateral moves outside of negotiations with the Palestinians. “From July, the presiding prime minister will be allowed to bring President Trump’s statement with regard to the realization of Israeli sovereignty to government and Parliament, following due process,” Gantz said in a statement. Converting Trump’s peace plan into facts on the ground would further strengthen the president’s argument that his administration is among the most pro-Israel. Among his actions, Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and exited the nuclear deal with Iran — which drew the praise of Netanyahu and conservative groups within the pro-Israel community in the U.S. A significant part of the Republican Party constituency and parts of the evangelical community tend to be more to the right politically on Israel, and “Netanyahu has repeatedly been an important validator of Trump to that constituency,” said Tamara Cofman Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she focuses on U.S. policy in the Middle East. “It gives Netanyahu a reason to praise Trump to this constituency that pays attention to Netanyahu, and that helps Trump with that constituency,” she added. The agreement on annexation discussions represents a major political win for Netanyahu, who is facing a corruption trial that was postponed until May 24 amid the country’s coronavirus lockdown. “The fact that annexation is included as the only non-coronavirus major policy issue to be discussed during the government’s first six months is a statement of how important it is to the Israeli right and how they view the window of its possibility to be closing should President Trump not be reelected,” said Michael Koplow, policy director for the nonprofit Israel Policy Forum. “Annexation is the right’s top policy priority, and for many of them, their support of Netanyahu during his legal problems is contingent on his delivering West Bank sovereignty. That it was singularly included in the agreement should be taken as a sign of how close it is to coming to fruition,” he added. Israeli and U.S. officials have worked since February to map parts of the West Bank for annexation, refining borders that were first identified in maps released as part of the Trump administration’s peace plan for Israelis and Palestinians and introduced at the end of January - Fair Use - ••• It’s going to be a reallllllly interesting summer. Better put a helmet on for it ! : ) If it's all the same to You, Lord, I would much prefer a balcony seat. Just sayin'. :prayer-hands: Forget 18 months ... world wide vaccine will be ready in 12 months ... would that make it April 2021 for the roll-out? :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn Wilma is really doubling down on this. Probably was promised a seat in the infernal council or something. “Wilma”! :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: At first I thought what does Wilma from the Flintstones have to do with the shots ... then I realized you’re referring to tranny Bill. :mdrmdr: Yep, big meeting next month with G7 and G20 nations pushing them all to be in-sync with the sinister program. Meanwhile the rapture window timeframe continues to narrow down ... I wouldn’t at all be surprised if they say in a few weeks that the vaccines are ready in 10 months ... :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn
"Careless customers" are "probably the biggest threat" to workers right now, according to Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers' union. The union said 85% of its grocery store member workers reported that customers are not practicing social distancing in stores.
Public safety officials are not requiring essential stores to shut down to customers, but the US Labor Department last week recommended that retailers start "using a drive-through window or offering curbside pick-up" to protect workers for exposure to coronavirus. The California Department of Industrial Relations said this week that companies should "encourage customer use of online order and pickup."
Some companies and safety experts say it's not feasible to convert all grocery stores to delivery and pickup-only outposts. Ordering systems for both pickup and delivery are completely overwhelmed by a crush of demand from customers in many areas of the country.
A Trader Joe's representative said that while "we understand that during this time customers would appreciate a delivery or pick up service," the grocer's "systems are not set up in a way that would allow us to be able to offer these services, and at the same time maintain our commitment to offering value to our customers."
Daniel 9:27 tells us that there is an existing ‘peace’ deal/ covenant for seven years. Which means there has to be an agreement or frame work for the treaty already in place for the antichrist to be able to do so. Oh!!! And wait until you see the actual name given to the plan!
A newly formed Israeli government is laying the groundwork to enact the first steps of President Trump’s Middle East peace deal, announcing plans to discuss annexing parts of the West Bank by the summer.
