After the controversy generated this year, the Walmart supermarket chain signed an agreement with the National Institute for Older Adults (Inapam) for the reinstatement of volunteer packers in their stores.
In a joint statement they indicated that, in order to take care of the health of customers and packers, older adults must have the complete vaccination scheme against Covid-19 to carry out their work in stores.
Likewise, the agency explained that people will be able to work only in branches of the supermarket chain that areand locate in states with a green epidemiological traffic light; they should also pause activities if it turns yellow, orange or red.
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It also establishes the presence of only one elderly person per collection boxIn addition, customers can decide whether to pack their purchases themselves, or request the support of a volunteer packer.
“In accordance with the security measures and protocols implemented to take care of health and protect the elderly, Walmart of Mexico and Central America will determine the number of packers and volunteer packers, as well as the hours enabled for their collaboration in each store ”.
Inapam highlighted the provision of the supermarket chain for the return of the elderly as voluntary packers of the company, which is subject to the disposition, capacity and needs of each self-service store.
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For its part, Walmart stated that the customers of its stores have expressed their support for the reinstatement of older adults as volunteer packers, who, as a measure to prevent the spread of Covid-19, had withdrawn from their stores.
At the end of last June, the company had 2,677 stores in the Mexican Republic; of which 2,129 were Bodega Aurrerá, 288 Walmart, 165 Sam’s Club, 70 Superama and 25 Walmart Express.
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