{"id":38180,"date":"2020-03-18T16:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=38180"},"modified":"2020-03-23T07:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:27:09","slug":"best-buy-announces-coronavirus-plan-to-allow-15-customers-in-a-store-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/best-buy-announces-coronavirus-plan-to-allow-15-customers-in-a-store-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy announces Coronavirus plan to allow 15 customers in a store at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/best-buy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21734\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/best-buy-1024x683.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"best-buy\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/best-buy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/best-buy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/best-buy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> Best Buy has shifted their policy again. All in-store shopping is cancelled, but you can still use free curbside pickup. (Or free shipping on $35+ orders)<\/p>\n<p>Citing a spike in electronics purchases due to the increased number of Americans working from home, Best Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.bestbuy.com\/update-from-best-buy\/\">will be launching<\/a> a new way to interact with customers on Monday, March 23. (Best Buy also reduced store hours to 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. as of today)<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the way an Apple Store employee is assigned to a customer at an iPhone launch, a Best Buy employee will escort a customer (from a distance of 6 feet away) around the store to pick up an item. Roughly 10 to 15 customers will be allowed in a Best Buy location at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, this means customers will be lined up outside the store if the location is particularly busy. Of course, curbside pickup will still be available if a customer wants to order something online and grab it without leaving their car.<\/p>\n<p>This means Best Buy will have fewer employees in each store each day. The company has pledged to pay employees not working a full two weeks pay during the period with shorter hours. In addition, the company&#8217;s absence policy has been relaxed, in case anyone need to call out sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: Best Buy has shifted their policy again. All in-store shopping is cancelled, but you can still use free curbside pickup. (Or free shipping on $35+ orders) Citing a spike in electronics purchases due to the increased number of Americans working from home, Best Buy will be launching a new way to interact with customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[459,2221,2222,436,808],"class_list":["post-38180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-best-buy","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-online-shopping","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38180"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38212,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38180\/revisions\/38212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}