Food Shopping Grows More Perilous; H Mart Taking Employees' Temperature

(Updated April 9) Trader Joe’s on Post Road in Scarsdale is closed until Thursday April 9 after the death of an employee from Covid-19 early Monday morning, April 6. According to the Washington Post, the employee had underlying health conditions. The store is closed to give workers “time to process and grieve.”

The store will continue to pay employees during the closure and will clean and sanitize during the closure.

The Trader Joe’s in Hartsdale was closed for a few days last week from Monday March 30 to Thursday April 4 when an employee tested positive for the virus. The store was enforcing social distancing by limiting the number of shoppers in the store, having shoppers line-up outside, offering hand sanitizer and opening from 9 am – 10 am for seniors.

H Mart on Central Avenue is now taking employees' temperatures before they begin work. Sean Kim, the office manager at H Mart in Hartsdale reports these measures they are taking to keep employees and shoppers safe:

-We've been checking our employees temperature before work.
-We provide masks for our employees everyday,
-We set the first hour of business hours for seniors, (as of today, 9am to 10am)
-We reduced number of customers allowed in at one time,
-We marked 6 feet distance both outside and check-out counters for social distancing,
-We provide hand sanitizer and unused gloves also wipe the handle of shopping cart at the entrance,
-We provide a receptacle outside for used masks and gloves at the exit.

At DeCicco’s in Scarsdale, shoppers are also lined up outside and plexiglass partitions have been installed between the cashiers and shoppers. The store is well stocked.