One of British Columbia’s biggest supermarket chains is refusing calls to require customers to wear face masks in their stores to curb the spread of COVID-19, forcing a union representing grocery workers to ask BC’s Provincial Health Officer to intervene and order the company to mandate masks.
Save-On-Foods, a chain owned by billionaire Jim Pattison, doesn’t require pandemic shoppers to wear masks at its BC locations, even though a number of their main competitors already do so, including Walmart, Whole Foods as well as Loblaws’ Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills and T&T Supermarket chains.
