To our Bloomingfoods Community,
In light of the developing information about the coronavirus (COVID-19), we want to let you know how Bloomingfoods is responding to best ensure the safety of our staff and customers. Your safety is our highest priority. As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread throughout the country, our internal emergency response team has and will continue to closely monitor guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and local health officials in our area. The team will rely on their recommendations and expertise to inform our decisions moving forward.
Based on that advice, we are:
Communicating and monitoring the execution of our preparedness plan with staff. This keeps in mind the health and wellbeing of both the staff and our customers, and includes such actions as:
Increasing the frequency of cleaning and sanitizing the register areas, sales floor, back stock areas, seating areas, and offices. You will likely notice increased disinfecting of high-touch areas around the store.
We have placed signage around the store (front-end and back-end) with important facts and reminders to help staff remain aware of our efforts to protect one another.
We are encouraging staff to stay home if they are sick. Employees will not be penalized for taking these precautions. If an employee displays symptoms indicating a respiratory illness while already at work, they will be directed to go home.
Ordering increased amounts of high demand items, such as non-perishable grocery items like bottled water, beans, pasta, nuts, etc. We will continue to do our best to keep the shelves stocked with the high-quality items that you are accustomed to.
What can you do?
We ask that our customers frequently wash and/or sanitize their hands and practice good respiratory hygiene / cough etiquette:
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing
Use the nearest waste receptacle to dispose of the tissue after use
Perform hand hygiene (e.g., hand washing with non-antimicrobial soap and water, alcohol-based hand rub, or antiseptic handwash) after having contact with respiratory secretions and contaminated objects/materials.
To stay home if you are feeling sick
Continue to respect, care for, and support one another
We will provide access to hand sanitizer throughout the store when it’s available to us. We encourage everyone to frequently wash their hands.
We will continue to closely monitor and quickly respond to the latest developments based on the wellbeing of the entire Bloomingfoods community.
Additional Resources:
If you wish to contact us for this or any reason, please email us at info@bloomingfoods.coop or call 812-339-4442.
Dee Bohler & Phil Phillipy
Bloomingfoods General Management Team