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Costco will require all customers to wear face masks starting May 4

By Spencer Neale
Published April 29, 2020 8:10pm ET
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Costco will require all customers to wear face masks starting May 4
FILE - A shopper pushes a cart outside Costco Wholesale in Danvers, Mass. in this May 27, 2009 file photo. Costco's fiscal second-quarter net income fell 15 percent, hurt by softer sales of some non-food items, weaker gross margins in its fresh foods business and the impact of weaker foreign currency exchange rates on its international results. Its latest performance missed Wall Street's view. The stock declined in premarket trading on Thursday March 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) | Elise Amendola

One of the top retailers in the United States announced plans to require that all customers and employees begin wearing face masks on May 4.

Representatives with Costco said the company plans to reopen stores nationwide with normal operating hours in the coming week and that the new mask policy does not replace the need for social distancing.

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