The stricter shopping rules imposed this weekend on Norwalk stores during the pandemic may be implemented statewide.
Wayne Pesce, who runs the West Hartford-based Connecticut Food Association, an industry group that promotes retail grocers and their suppliers, said he would be talking to about a dozen of the large chains Monday afternoon about recommending Gov. Ned Lamont issue an executive order.
“We’d rather have it on a state level than go town by town,” Pesce said in an interview. “We’re willing to do that stuff, but we’ve got a bunch of people that need to come together and agree.”
With coronavirus cases surging in Norwalk, Mayor Harry Rilling on Sunday issued a handful of emergency orders aimed at forcing social-distancing. Those included reducing the maximum occupancy of Norwalk businesses to 50 percent of the fire marshal’s allowed limit, and requiring family’s to send only one member to a store at a time.
“I understand that families, especially those with young children, are experiencing cabin fever staying at home,” Rilling said. “However, taking the entire family out to a store to get out of the house during the outbreak is unnecessarily dangerous to both your family and everyone else in the store.”
Pesce said he and his members discussed the measures over the weekend with Rilling and state Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, and were supportive. Pesce said another recommendation was for one-way traffic in store aisles to further reduce the opportunities for customers to come into close contact.
“We were having conversations with them over the weekend around how do we just keep people safer? How do we do more,” said...
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