Gov. Roy Cooper has announced plans to increase restrictions on retailers in response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. | Photo Courtesy of Governor Roy Cooper Facebook
Gov. Roy Cooper has announced plans to increase restrictions on retailers in response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. | Photo Courtesy of Governor Roy Cooper Facebook
Gov. Roy Cooper recently increased restrictions on retailers in response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Cooper’s April 9 executive order adds new social distancing and sanitizing requirements for all retailers currently permitted to operate, according to reporting by The News & Observer.
“This order will ensure those limits are mandatory across the state for retailers,” Cooper said when first announcing the order.
According to the governor, his office has received complaints from residents who found stores too crowded to make it possible to remain six feet from other shoppers.
In addition to restricting the total number of people in a store at any given time, some retailers had already placed markers in their checkout lanes that mark the six-foot distance for customers.
In announcing the new restrictions, Cooper praised other voluntary measures taken by some retailers, such as plexiglass shields between cashiers and customers, or making aisles one-way.
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