Hours changing, enforcing six-foot rule, hand washing setup
— from Island Market —
Effective immediately:
- Store hours are 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. until further notice.
- Mandatory 6 feet distance rule in effect for all people inside the store.
- We encourage you to only come to the store for essentials and ask you to team up with friends and neighbors to make one trip instead of many.
- Starting Monday, we will have a hand washing station setup at the front door and will be requiring you to wash your hands before shopping.
We will also be monitoring the amount of people in the store to ensure there is a safe distance for our employees and shoppers.
Updates and Answers:
- Our supply chain remains good for all essential food items and we are receiving sanitizer and cleaning products as they become available. When they do become available you will be limited to one per customer.
- Many have asked about doing a special hour for at-risk shoppers. After consulting with many people, we are not going to do this as we feel it will put those at risk at a higher risk. Please encourage the people at high risk to utilize friends, neighbors, and our community resources. Visit https://orcas.recovers.org/ to volunteer or to sign up for assistance.
- We are sorry about the timing of the store reset (moving items around) and wish we could have delayed but our options were limited. We have new store maps at the register to help you find the items your looking for.
- People have asked about delivery or curbside pickup. We are not able to do that at this time due to the amount of people that would need to be served. We are focusing on cleaning, sanitizing, and giving people space to shop.
I would like to sign off by saying how grateful we are to be a part of a community that looks after one another and considers their neighbors in a time of crisis. In many other areas people are not being as considerate as us islanders. It is amazing to be a part of a community that strengthens when a challenge comes our way.
Be well Orcas.
And Thank You! And thanks to chashiers for hanging in there and at
Island Lumber and Hardware and all those working for curbside service at restaurants!
So appreciate all you are doing to keep our Island fed & nourished! You are dedicated to our community and it is recognized
Would it be possible to post the new store maps on line so we need not spend time in the store perhaps in a queue looking for new locations of items ?
Thank you for these changes and please keep posting them..Many at risk individuals (over 60) are still out and about and unwilling to change their habits. Thanks as well for the calls you are making to those who left messages for you with suggestions. We are pleasantly surprised and appreciate the time you are devoting to the community to make us safer.
If Orcas issues allows it, I’m attaching a Seattle Times article on washing fresh produce. Read about why washing with cold water is better than hot.
/Users/my-mac/Desktop/How to wash produce.pdf
I see the attachment I put in my last comment can’t be opened. Go to seattletimes.com, and look for “Health Resources & Info” to read about washing fresh produce.
Thank you, Margot. An article well worth reading.
Great update and nice job. Together between both the market and the Co-op we will meet everyone’s shopping needs!
here’s an LA times article on how to wash produce – https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-03-16/how-to-wash-fresh-vegetables-fruits-during-coronavirus-crisis
would it be helpful for non symptomatic people to wear a mask – even a homemade mask – in order to slow the possibility of infection? i don’t have one yet – but that might be another thing to have at the door and sell singly.
I want to thank the entire workforce at Island Market. They have been the support team for me and I would guess for the whole Island. Today I saw the brothers at the front door serving their community with smiles and care. All those checkers, the produce people, the meat servers, stockers, backroom support staff and those deli folks out from behind their counter doing super at showing old stuck in the mud shoppers where things are. It is a joy to be a part of this gathering.