AllHome Corp., the listed retail firm of the Villar group, on Thursday said it continues to implement safety measures even as quarantine restrictions are slowly being relaxed by the government.
The company said these measures include the wearing of face masks, foot baths, hand sanitation stations at its store entrances, regular customer temperature scanning and social distancing protocols.
“It is important to note that we are paying close attention to safety, especially in these times,” AllHome President Benjamarie N. Serrano said. “We have implemented several measures to ensure safety of our company personnel and our customers as well.”
“To help mitigate the risk of Covid-19, we have included in our store protocols the early closure of stores to allow for more stringent sanitation and the replenishment of essential products, the practice of social distancing, as well as the placing of limits on customer traffic at any one time inside all stores, all with the objective of answering the customers’ need for both safety and a pleasant home shopping experience.”
The company said its customer facilities, such as bathrooms, elevators and escalators are regularly sanitized, as well as elevator buttons and escalator handrails. All its stores, on top of regular in-house sanitation, are also regularly disinfected by Shieldtec, an All Value affiliate with institutional knowledge of disinfection. These measures have encouraged customer visits after the lockdown, translating to higher transaction and sales turn-out, it said.
To further minimize customer contact, AllHome said it employs cashless payment whenever applicable, via QR Code facilities or through card payment as well as the implementation of smart shopping by browsing through its e-commerce platform allhomeclick.com.
The company also partnered with the Department of Public Works and Highways through the provision of construction materials and other supplies to convert the Philippine International Convention Center into an improvised health facility. It said this helped to decongest Metro Manila hospitals and segregated the Covid-19 cases from non-Covid-19 patients.
AllHome said it managed to allocate this donation from its accumulated current year earnings, which grew 30 percent to P270.2 million in the first quarter, from last year’s P207.1 million.