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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.
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.
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.
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
Where we are the store has just put up lots of orange signs advising everyone “social distance”
Tried going the ‘wrong’ way in Walmart. No problem. Just checking.
baa, baa, baa......
Hallelujah! Not surprised to see that common sense is coming from the private sector which actually has an interest in listening to customers. Let’s see if the Gov has a hissy fit over it.
Surely you jest - "you coward" !! LOL!!
If anyone's wondering about the "you coward" comment, that's what Wold calls anyone who goes against his insane Covid-19 decisions. He is using the full force (criminal and civil) of the state government to prevent any attempt to re-open PA outside his permission. The emperor will take your business licences, your occupancy licenses, stop state to county and locality support (money) and directs authorities to cite, i.e., fine unobservant citizens and businesses as they see fit.
Like other blue state governors, the man thinks he's a king. His choice of Health Department director Rick/Rachael Levine, speaks volumes about his values and judgement.