Mega retailer Target announced Wednesday that it would rescind its mask mandate that applied to both employees and shoppers, joining a growing number of stores scaling back their masking rules.

Retailers such as Walmart and Amazon had already dropped their mask mandates for fully vaccinated employees. Target’s new policy applies to roughly 409,000 workers,

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