Local Grocery Stores Implement Sr. Shopping Hour

Grocery stores across the tennessee valley are setting aside times to open their doors just for seniors.

It's all in an effort to keep these customers safe from the coronavirus.

Waay31s sierra phillips is at the kroger on memorial parkway with a look at who qualifies.

Today will be kroger's first day with this new policy and it starts in just a couple of hours at 7am.

Seniors and anyone deemed high-risk by the centers for disease control will have an exclusive time to shop from 7am to 8am, monday through thursday.

Anyone over the age of 60 qualifies as a senior.

In a release, a representative with kroger said this change comes after many customers reached out and expressed concern about the vulnerability of this age group and the coronavirus.

Stores open to everyone else at 8 a.m.

And will close at 9 p.m.

Publix is following suit.

Their shopping hour will be from 7 to 8 on tuesday and wednesday mornings.

Anyone over 65 qualifies as a senior at publix.

Reporting live in huntsville sierra phillips waay31 news.