LOS ANGELES – Vallarta Supermarkets announced Tuesday that it will open its stores an hour early to accommodate seniors 65 and older, pregnant women and those with disabilities as a way to assist customers amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Effective Wednesday, the company’s locations in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino, Kern, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Fresno counties will open to serve those customers at 7 a.m. before opening to the rest of the public at 8 a.m.
“These special hours, along with our efforts to improve checkout times, restock shelves and assist with customer service, are some of the changes we’re making in an effort to meet the high demand during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Andrew Lewis, Vallart’s vice president of marketing.
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Robert says
If it’s true Vallarta is price gouging, they should be reported to Better Business Bureau.
Personally ? I won’t step foot in a Vallarta Market.
Jacque Bailey says
I am a disabled Senior with no family but my two fur babies. I got up early Wed. Morning to go to Valletta thinking I could get a couple of things I could not get in any other store, but I was very disappointed when I got there. Unfortunately, there was a large line of people, not just Seniors, and at 7am they began letting people in whatever their age was. Well, by the time some of us Seniors got in everything had been stripped from the shelves. I feel if the early hour was for Seniors that is who they should have let in the door and kept the amount of toilet paper, Lysol, etc to a minimum of one per customer not a whole shopping cart to one customer. I was blessed to remember that Stater Brothers said they would open at 8am and for Seniors too. Being as it was close to my house I went there thinking it was probably in vain but there was an employee standing at the door that only let Seniors in, and we were grateful to get one thing of the paper products that we could not get anywhere. STATER BROS RULES. THANK YOU FOR CARING FOR THE ONES WHO CAN NOT GET OUT TO GET THINGS. GOD BLESS ALL THE EMPLOYEES AND THANK YOU GOD FOR LETTING US GET A FEW THINGS WE NEEDED.
Jj Narvaez says
I took my mom to Vallarta on Wednesday morning at 6am. They had no toilet paper or rice. If you ask me the hour earlier opening is not to help seniors but just to increase sales.
H says
Why is Vallarta increasing prices on meats and eggs. Eggs were like 6 or 7 buck and now they are almost 10 dollars. People are not worling, so why do that to the community.
D.P. says
If Vallarta is sanitizing their stores and doing extra things due to the virus, that may explain the higher costs of things.
In fact, things will likely cost more in the future as precautions cost money and they will be built into the price of things.
For example. All those security lids on bottles and jars add cost$. They weren’t always around till jokers started putting poison in Tylenol bottles back in the 80s.
H.A. says
Now eggs are 15, at Vallarta. talk about taking advantage of the situation and of the community.