COVID-19 pandemic.President of the Coquitlam Royal Canadian Legion Bob Chapman told Global News that due to the pandemic, some stores in the region have been saying no to poppy boxes.“Some businesses won’t take a poppy box into their business, some wanted to just put it behind their counter for their staff, and we had one major food chain actually ask our tagger to leave the store,” he said.A poppy tagger is someone who volunteers to go to a location and hand out poppies.
Whole Foods will let staff wear poppies after firestorm over ‘disgraceful’ ban One grocery store in the Burquitlam area told Global News they are not restricting the Legion from selling poppies in their stores, but they are asking the volunteers to collect donations.