Updated: 3.30.2020
Along with the rest of the world, we have been closely monitoring COVID-19 and what it means for our community. And it’s serious. As community is at the heart of everything we do here at Mulhall’s, we’ve tried to keep it at the heart of our response.
Actions we’re going to take and encourage:
- Growing the conversation. Even for those intent on doing their part, habits are hard to break. Let’s work together to remind each other what this is going to take: staying home when not feeling well, washing hands more regularly, maintaining physical distance, and listening carefully to the recommendations of our national, state, and local health officials.
- Upping our cleaning efforts. We’ve put together a team dedicated to the effort, and they’re thinking hard about opportunities and best-practices. Initiatives include more frequent store cleaning, cleaning kits for all of our service vehicles, installing sneeze guards at our registers, regularly disinfecting common surfaces, placing floor decals at checkouts to help maintain social distance, using nitrile gloves where and when applicable, and having cleaning solutions available to use on our registers and shopping carts.
- Fighting stigma and discrimination. Let’s identify the experts and follow their guidance. There’s a lot to learn, and there’s a lot at stake. We’re not going to tolerate discrimination based on race or country of origin, and we’re going to encourage confidentiality for those with confirmed infections. We are going to continue to listen closely on how to determine risk, on how to support those who get sick, and on how to support those recovered and ready to end home isolation.
- Containing the spread. We’ve cancelled our early spring close-quarter events, have launched an online shop for drive-through pickup, are holding meetings that we can’t have digitally in more open-air environments, and are doing everything we can to support our team members to stay at home when not feeling well and to work from home as they’re able.
And on a more positive note, there could be some good here. Millions of people around the world are being forced to slow down and to spend more time out in the open air. Spending more time outside – participating in the beauty of the natural world – would be good for all of us. And listening closely to the recommendations of the Douglas County Health Department and CDC, we’re here, doors open, to help you do that in whatever way we’re able.
