Coronavirus: Walmart to limit customers and create one-way traffic inside some stores

Walmart still wants customers, just fewer of them at a time.

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Starting Saturday, the nation’s largest retailer said it will now allow no more than five customers for each 1,000 square feet at a given time, roughly about 20% of the average store’s capacity.

To oversee the restriction, workers will mark a queue at a single-entry door, and direct arriving customers there, where they’ll be admitted one by one. The store will also institute one-way movement through our aisles next week in some stores, including floor markers and direction from workers.

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Walmart joins Target and others in trying to limit the number of customers in the store to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.