No one is making 'loyal customers' bad or anything of the sort. Lowe's employees are just requesting customers to visit stores only for ESSENTIAL products. Please postpone all other projects, the same way doctors/hospitals are asking people to postpone non-urgent hospital visits and elective surgeries! It's all about stopping/slowing down the transmission of the virus. Lowe's stores are very crowded and are hence are not following the recommended social distancing procedures. You don't have to wait for your state to issue "shelter-in-place" orders; it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to observe social guidelines. Either you or the people you interacted with at the store, have the virus- you will, in turn, infect many other people in your family, including the elderly and people with underlying medical conditions.
We are just requesting customers to be smart and to only come INTO the stores if they absolutely have to. I'm a homeowner as well and there are some projects that I wish I could do, but I have chosen to wait a little bit longer because of the ongoing crisis.
If we ignore all the directives, guess what will happen? All the innocent employees will be infected, and they will have to take MANDATORY quarantines, and the store will have to CLOSE. It's that simple. And a very likely possibility for many stores if the current trends and attitudes don't change. Thank you to all loyal customers and loyal employees. Let's all observe the social distancing guidelines to mitigate the spread of COVID-19!
Perfectly said, @ity+147O8b6a.