Target Apologizes for Selling N95 Masks in Seattle

In a tweet, a journalist featured a photo of the masks lining three shelves at a Seattle store.

“Tall stacks of N95 masks @Target in Seattle, despite a shortage at hospitals,’’ wrote the journalist, Ann Dornfeld, a public radio education reporter in Seattle.

Fuse Washington, a progressive organization, also called out the company on Twitter: “Why are you selling thousands of N95 masks when local hospitals are critically short?”

In Seattle, a union for health care workers, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, on Saturday called the mask sales “unacceptable” and demanded that Target divert them to the medical system. After working with government leaders, the union said Target planned to get the supplies to medical workers.

“We hope other retailers will follow suit,” said Jane Hopkins, a nurse who is executive vice president of the union.

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington said his office took action after hearing of the reports of the masks.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/business/coronavirus-n95-masks-target.html