I live about an hour away so thought it was worth my time to visit. It's Sunday so everything is closed, as would be on any normal Sunday. The Save Mart grocery store had masks optional (a big thing in the world of King Newsom) and the check-out clerks were, or were not, wearing them. It was nice to tell someone that it was nice to see a face.
Two takeaways worth sharing: One, yeah - check out counter clerks not wearing masks, after all this time, and were still alive. Two - it's a sleepy, smaller town in the farmland of the San Joaquin Valley. If there is an "outbreak" there this week, you can count on it not being true.
In my state, I have yet to see one single checkout clerk wearing a mask
Only in Walmart where I am. I think they sent out a nation-wide policy.
I am in a very rural area, 1,000 acre cattle farms and all, but only about 90 minutes outside of a well-known city. Every store acted like nothing happened, except Walmart, which literally built shopping cart cattle runs, 3 carts high, out in front of the store.
Everyone thought it was hysterical hysteria, at first. Now everyone looks at that store like it is the harbinger of communism.
We have smaller stores in the area, which everyone now frequents. No one goes to Walmart, unless they have to.
Yeah I notice them wearing masks at Walmart but I always go through self checkout so I didn't associate "checkout clerk" with Wal Mart