Uganda: Carrefour and Mega Standard supermarkets adopt measures to protect staff and customers amid Covid-19 pandemic
"Retailers enforce protective measures against coronavirus"
As you make your entry into Carrefour supermarket’s wide-open doors, you are welcomed by a temperature gun. That is the machine used to read your body temperature when pointed at your forehead. After a few steps in, Mr Henry Asasira, the attendant on duty then directs the customers to the affixed hand sanitisers before offering them plastic gloves to enjoy shopping in the supermarket. This is one of the moves that the retail supermarkets are enforcing as precautionary measures to allow them to persevere through this trying time...
Mega Standard Supermarket has also stationed hand sanitisers at the entrance of the supermarket to ensure all customers entering have disinfected their hands prior to touching commodities. Ms Julie Okwi, one of the customers shopping through Carrefour supermarket says the precautionary measures installed by the retailer are reassuring in regard to safety of customers while shopping. “I feel safe. I have been through other malls and all they do is provide a sanitiser. I have in fact spent over an hour shopping compared to other places where I enter and immediately get out to avoid any risk,” she says.