new delhi big retailers which are presently dispensing only essential items amid the lockdown are taking precautionary measures like restricted entry and marked lines to maintain social distancing to avoid coronavirus infection at their storessome stores as reliance fresh morewalmart and metro cash carry are even screening body temperature of their customers before allowing them entry into the storemetro cash carry india said it is prepacking loose commodities to avoid infection at its stores and is ensuring plenty of cash tills and mobile checkouts to reduce the billing time it has also introduced a token system to avoid large gathering at stores advt several retailers like future dmart and walmart have marked special lines on their shop floors to maintain social distancing they are also regularly sanitising the stores and disinfecting all touchpoints which include trolly and basket handleswe are managing the queue in such a way that people are standing away from each otheravenue supermarts ceo and managing director neville noronha told ptiavenue supermarts that runs dmart stores is handing out coloured coupons to its customers waiting outside in the open area and then allowing entry of a particular colour at a time as part of its crowd management planwe are calling out the colour as yellow green and then 20 to 30 people are walking inside the store when these people out from the store then we call the next colour said noronhametro cash carry md ceo arvind mediratta said we have initiated a token system to manage the customers and avoid a large gathering inside the store the tokens are properly sanitized with disinfectants and then handed over to customerswalmart india which operates in cash carry format has also marked lines and is only permitting one person per membership cardwe have marked the floors of our best price stores with yellow stripes and boxes to designate enough space for each member to maintain safe distance from each othersaid a walmart india spokesperson advt he further said the stores are also equipped with contactless thermometers for conducting temperature checks entry is barred for those detected with fever and hightouch surfaces of our stores are being regularly cleaned with disinfectantas far as measures for sanitation are concerned walmart india has already deployed hand washing stations at the entry of stores as well as multiple hand sanitiser stations across each storemetro cash carry india is also maintaining hygiene advised by the health authorities and loose commodities are being prepacked to avoid infection at its storeswe test each entrant with infra thermometers at all our stores and refuse those customers whose temperature is above 100 degrees fahrenheit we have a dedicated quality officer who is stationed full time at each of our stores to avoid crowd we are ensuring plenty of cash tills and mobile checkouts said a metro cash carry india spokespersonmost of the retailers have closed access to other segments as apparels etc within the store and are operating within onethird of