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Colemans installing barriers at its store checkouts across Newfoundland and Labrador

Diane Crocker · Multimedia Journalist | Posted: March 20, 2020, 2:31 p.m. | Updated: March 20, 2020, 8:23 p.m. | 1 Min Read
Colemans is installing plexiglass at checkouts in its stores across the province to help ensure the safety its employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. By Thursday (March 19) almost all the checkouts at the Gardens location on O’Connell Drive in Corner Brook were equipped with plexiglass. Colemans expects the installation process may take a couple of weeks to complete. Here, customer Joanne Earle prepares to pay for her purchase while clerk Heather Ryles looks on behind the partition.
Customer Joanne Earle prepares to pay for her purchase at Colemans at the Gardens in Corner Brook on Thursay while clerk Heather Ryles looks on behind the newly installed plexiglass partition. The partition is in response to the COVID-19 situation in the province.

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CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Colemans is installing plexiglass at checkouts in its stores across the province to help ensure the safety its employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Thursday, almost all the checkouts at the Gardens location on O’Connell Drive in Corner Brook were equipped with plexiglass.

Colemans expects the installation process may take a couple of weeks to complete. 

Colemans is not the only grocery store to implement this measure.

Sobeys announced Friday it was also installing plexiglass shields in its stores. 

Sobeys is also reducing its hours to 8 a.m to 8 p.m.and has implemented extra sanitation protocols.

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