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Posted on 05/14/2020 6:40:53 AM PDT by lightman
Shoppers at Giant no longer have to worry if they’re going the wrong way down the supermarket aisles.
The Carlisle-based Giant Company has taken down the signs and arrows that encouraged customers to adhere to one-way foot traffic in all of its stores, according to a spokesperson.
“We listen closely to our customers, and many expressed that the directional arrows, while well intended, could increase shopping time,” said Ashley Flowers, public relations manager for the chain. “As a result, we removed the directional arrows."
All other signage and social distancing measures remains in place, however, and customers will continue to be expected to wear masks in the stores.
The one-way shopping aisles were designed to ensure shoppers were spaced out within its stores during the coronavirus pandemic.
Since the pandemic began, grocery stores have enacted a variety of measures, from erecting sneeze guards at registers to dedicating shopping hours for senior citizens and those with compromised immune systems.
Lots of shopper vs. shopper conflict and shopper vs. staff conflict.
Giant discovers that Franklin was right: "Those who would surrender freedom in order to gain temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety"
Maybe Governor Wolf will pay attention.
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Our local Safeway has one-way aisles, but very few have seemed to pay any attention. I haven’t seen any conflict or ‘nervous nellies’ complaining.
LOL, I wish they would stay home and respect the stay at home orders their hero's have pronounced.
I have not been into a supermarket in the Houston area that did this. They changed some entrances and exits to entrance only on one end and exit out the other, but that’s it.
The WalMart I shop at has arrows. Few follow them, including employees. I’m pretty sure people don’t notice them or care. I also see more and more not wearing masks while shopping. No one freaks out if they see a person without a mask. When masks go back to options, I suspect nearly eveyone will stop wearing them in my area.
what arrows? never saw em. /s
This is a good move!
The one way aisles were the idiotic collective brainchild of the “well we have to do something” mindset. There was never an iota of logic behind them and nobody paid any attention to them.
I never learned how to read.
Je ne parle Anglais.
/s
No stores around here have aisle arrows. It sounds like it would increase incidental contact as one would often have to go up an extra aisle to start at the correct end of the desired aisle if you don’t shop the whole store. (My wife and I have opposite shopping styles. I go up and down each aisle, taking what suits my fancy, she has a strict list, and keeps to it, using only half the aisles.) We don’t have a huge Karen problem here. We have a lot of Hispanics, and in general they are immune to Karens.
The only positive to "practice social distancing" in these parts is that I no longer encounter swarms of Hispanics and Asians getting into my personal space.
My definition of "personal space" is far less than the CDC's but theirs has apparently been NONE.
Fewer rules will create more business and profits. Good Idea.
My favorite was the bread aisle at the local Walmart. Following the arrows made it impossible to do it right. Break the rules vs. stay in the bread aisle forever. That was at least worth a laugh.
The arrows are silly, and we have a huge population that’s incapable of following rules anyway. Ability to follow rules and ability to use an EBT card are not related. Pointless rules mean even those who can follow them (and read them in English) won’t.
What I really don't like about Karns is the single file line to the meat counter that stretches down an entire aisle. No one social distances in the line, which is fine with me, but the line itself remains an inconvenience. Just shows that the rule defeats the purpose - people stack up. But it's a nice place to express one self. The last time I explained to my daughter what lines were like in the former Soviet Union and how we should be happy with all the products available on the shelves. Pure sarcasm of course, and I made sure people could over hear our conversation.
Have they taken down those annoying aisle blocking displays? I’m guessing no.
Until they do that they have no business trying to limit shopper contact with directional arrows, as these displays cause much more crowding than shoppers moving both ways through the aisles.
You’re right “well, we have to do something.” That’s why we have to wear masks. We have the one-way errors, I mean, arrows at the supermarket where I shop. I seem to be one of the few that follows them.
I recognize that they are meaningless, but, for the sake of comity, I comply.
They have them in our local grocery store. From day one they were ignored and no one cares.
The rules will now be enforced by dwarfs and midgets.
One small step for Karen
One Giant leap for mankind
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