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Supermarkets refuse to be superspreaders pandemic hit, people needed convenience more so than normal. As the coronavirus pandemic We saw home delivery orders drags on, South Shore supermar- going up and pickup becoming kets are persevering, ensuring more popular.” The program, which operates they remain committed to servthrough stopanding their customers shop.com, is contactin the safest ways free from start to finpossible. ish, as customers Many supermarorder online and kets, such as Stop & then simply drive up Shop in Seaford, are and have their grooffering new ways ceries brought to for customers to them. “You just pick shop, inside and outwhat hour you’d side the store. Even want to do your before the pandemic pickup, then grocery began, grocery shop as you would stores were exploronline,” said Shuing alternative ways man. “You can enter to enhance the shopyou r Go Rew a rds ping experience. Number so you can Using modern techget all of your counology to maximize pons and discounts convenience, they PAUl BARBIERI just the way you h av e s i m p l i f i e d Owner, would in-store. Then shopping, and that you pull up to the has meant sales even Salpino’s store during your when their custompick-up hour, call the ers don’t have time to get to the number on the sign at the spot store. “Stop & Shop Pickup is some- . . . and [have your groceries] put thing that we had been working in your trunk. No contact.” Smaller stores, such as the on for quite some time and were trying to roll out as quickly as Original Salpino’s of Wantagh, possible,” said Stefanie Shuman, have implemented similar proexternal communications man- grams, and emphasize the wide ager at Stop & Shop. “When the Continued on page 9
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tERREl tUosto, lEFt, spoke with Nassau County police officers before the march.
Protesters clash at Black Lives Matter march in Wantagh By BRIAN stIEGlItZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
Two political groups faced off at the Wantagh Long Island Rail Road station on Saturday during a Black Lives Matter protest in response to the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Protesters were marching to condemn systemic racism and double standards in policing, they said, specifically in light of last week’s swarming of the Capitol by a mostly white crowd protesting the
results of November’s presidential election. “They want to take us back to a time when everyone else was under their boots,” Terrel Tuosto, 28, of West Hempstead, said of the demonstrators in Washington. Tuosto was one of the organizers of the Wantagh protest, which included members of the local activist groups Black, White, Brown United and Long Island Peaceful Protest. As Tuosto spoke, a group of about a dozen counterprotesters congregated across the
street and began chanting “All lives matter!” and “This is what communism looks like!” among other phrases. The group carried a large “Trump 2020” flag, and most wore sweatshirts that said “F--Antifa,” while others sported pro-police shirts and hats. Nassau County police separated the two groups on opposite sides of Railroad Avenue, in front of the LIRR platform. Addressing the Black Lives Matter protesters, Tuosto Continued on page 3
think that 2020 showed us that whatever the world has to throw at us, we’ll adapt to it and eventually overcome it.