Charley Family Shop'n Save stores extend senior hours, add protective barriers
Charley Family Shop’n Save stores in Greensburg and Murrysville expanded their senior shopping hours and took additional measures to put shoppers’ minds at ease amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“We expanded senior hours on Monday from 6 to 9 a.m., and on Tuesday and Wednesday from 6 to 7 a.m.,” said owner Tom Charley. “And, then, the stores are open to the general public until 9 p.m.”
In a move similar to that of Giant Eagle, Charley said stores have installed Plexiglas barriers at all registers, and placed markers in the checkout areas to ensure customers are properly spaced out to respect social distancing.
In addition to the stores’ standard cleaning measures, “someone will be in the store from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. not just cleaning but also disinfecting, everywhere from the freezer-case doors to probably 150 other areas,” Charley said. “Some things are once an hour, some things are once a day. But all of the major touch points in the store are being disinfected every day.”
Charley said shoppers have been upbeat, for the most part.
“You certainly have an exception here and there where people are a little tense, but everyone’s been positive and very understanding of what’s going on.”
Charley regularly posts videos updating customers about store specials and promotions, however the updates lately have been geared more toward store efforts to keep shoppers safe:
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.
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