BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Some grocery stores are setting special hours for vulnerable shoppers amid coronavirus concerns.
Target, Whole Foods, Haggen, Safeway, and Albertsons are reserving store hours for at-risk community members like those who are elderly, pregnant, and immunocompromised.
Whole Foods says that starting Wednesday, stores in the U.S. and Canada will service customers 60 and older one hour before opening to the general public.
At the Bellingham location, that will be from 7 to 8 a.m.
Haggen, Safeway and Albertsons will be open to all at-risk groups each Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 9 a.m.
Target says they will reserve the first hour of shopping each Wednesday for vulnerable guests.
And The Community Food Co-Op announced that new temporary hours will begin Thursday for both their downtown and Cordata stores. High risk shopping hour will take place from 8 to 9 a.m. daily.