Discount Retailer Offering Free Mask Fabric

ACROSS CONNECTICUT — Ocean State Job Lot has launched what it is calling a ‘Mask Fabric For Free’ campaign to supply customers with the fabric necessary to create an estimated 2 million homemade cloth face masks.

Displays have been created in each of the chain's 140 store locations. Customers can pick up free, cotton-polyester blended fabric, in the form of cloth napkins and tablecloths, to craft DIY-masks.

To prevent hoarding, customers are limited to five units of fabric, officials from the discount retailer said

Ocean State has already used its "global supply chain" to "source" 1 million surgical and N95 face masks for front-line responders.

Gloves, cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, hazmat suits and eye protection have also been distributed.

Connecticut locations include:

• Enfield
• Manchester
• Windsor
• Windsor Locks
• Wethersfield
• Bloomfield
• Willimantic
• Berlin
• Canton
• Bristol
• Meriden
• Southington
• Brooklyn
• Griswold
• Torrington
• Waterbury
• Gales Ferry
• Old Saybrook
• Litchfield
• Naugatuck