Even before the covid-19 pandemic swept across the country, it was well-known that department stores were struggling to stay afloat financially. But the current public health crisis has accelerated the already-weakened retail industry’s descent into a full-blown financial disaster.\n
all of its 775 stores—despite the general uncertainty about when states will lift the shelter-in-place orders that have kept people inside since mid-March. The department store chain plans to begin opening stores over the next six to eight weeks, and they already have a vision for what this hands-offwill look like. Think plexiglass barriers in front of cash registers, hand sanitizer stations, and new rules for returning clothing and using makeup testers.
Although Macy’s plans for reopening have been made public, it seems as though the department store chain has failed to explain to its workers how it plans to“Some of our members have worked for Macy’s for three or four decades, and it is their lives that will be put on the line,” said the official, Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. “We have asked for information on how they intend to protect their employees and they have provided us with none.
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