Hell if you walked into the store without a shirt I don't think the store manager would be able to do any more than ask you to leave and call the cops if you didn't. And I'm not so sure they'd do even that: the last thing they'd want is a George Floyd type situation in their store over something so mundane.
Having worked at a Kroger sub-brand as a manager some years ago, I can confirm this. All you can do is give stern suggestions, and then call the cops. You have no power and will be fired quickly if you do anything else.
And having to shop there currently, the mask situation is the same. All they can do is hand you a disposable mask and ask if you could wear it, they have zero other power to force it on you. Can't even make you leave, which I abuse regularly.
Yeah I love abusing all the bureaucracy that a decade ago 30-something women were abusing to go shopping with their "purse dogs". And I love that the "purse dog" crowd likely seethes with rage over me abusing that same bureaucracy.
From what some of the people there tell me, they spend more time breaking up older women attacking people over masks then actually enforcing it on people (me being an exception).
Usually for "not being good enough" or "wearing it below nose." Karen's are abusing this situation hardcore and I take some pleasure in making them rage.
Hell if you walked into the store without a shirt I don't think the store manager would be able to do any more than ask you to leave and call the cops if you didn't. And I'm not so sure they'd do even that: the last thing they'd want is a George Floyd type situation in their store over something so mundane.
Having worked at a Kroger sub-brand as a manager some years ago, I can confirm this. All you can do is give stern suggestions, and then call the cops. You have no power and will be fired quickly if you do anything else.
And having to shop there currently, the mask situation is the same. All they can do is hand you a disposable mask and ask if you could wear it, they have zero other power to force it on you. Can't even make you leave, which I abuse regularly.
Yeah I love abusing all the bureaucracy that a decade ago 30-something women were abusing to go shopping with their "purse dogs". And I love that the "purse dog" crowd likely seethes with rage over me abusing that same bureaucracy.
From what some of the people there tell me, they spend more time breaking up older women attacking people over masks then actually enforcing it on people (me being an exception).
Usually for "not being good enough" or "wearing it below nose." Karen's are abusing this situation hardcore and I take some pleasure in making them rage.