🔴 Publix requiring its employees to mask up again as Florida faces another COVID surge 🔴

Vaccinated Publix employees had about two months to show customers their smiles.

That’s ending Monday as the Lakeland-based supermarket chain again requires all employees — regardless of vaccination status — to wear face coverings while inside any of Publix’s 1,273 stores in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and the Carolinas.

“We encourage all to do their part to slow the spread of COVID-19,” spokeswoman Maria Brous said, reflecting Publix’s statement.