The members of the National Grocers' Association have shared a list of their tips.

NGA has compiled the following list of common practices that members have shared with others. Remember, communication with your customers and employees is paramount.

• Communicate with your customers the steps your business is taking to protect against COVID-19
• Educate employees and customers on CDC-recommended hygiene procedures and social distancing actions
• Institute additional mandatory cleaning or sanitizing schedules and directions around stores
• Increase or add hand sanitizing stations around your stores for customers and employees
• Update and communicate your sick leave and paid-time-off policies to your employees regarding COVID-19
• Encourage any employees who have flu-like symptoms to stay home
• Identify hard-to-cover positions and implement cross-training to prepare for coverage issues
• Assign employees to regularly sanitize shopping carts and other high-traffic or high-touch areas
• Institute purchasing limits on high demand items and household staples (toilet paper, hand sanitizer, cleaning products)
• Stay in communication with local and state health officials and make sure your company is receiving regular updates
• Consider changing regular store hours to encourage grocery shopping at lower traffic times
• Schedule specific hours of operation for vulnerable populations to shop without other customers
• Expand remote shopping options if available (click-and-collect, delivery, pick-up, shop-by-phone)
• Consider temporarily closing salad bars, buffets, and other ready-to-eat or sample offerings in stores
• Ask customers to implement social distancing (six feet per person) while standing in checkout lines