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.
They had small signs on the floor of our local Walmart, but nobody paid attention. In fact, the signs were so small I didn’t even notice them until I was ready to leave. Not too many Karens in E. TN.
I was at my local Kroger recently and noticed the one way arrows on the floor that nobody was paying attention to....LOL!
One way accomplishes nothing. You walk into the breath exhaled by the person in front of you. That is no better than walking into the breath of the person who just passed you going in the other direction.
While I’m at it, the 6 foot waiting line distance is stupid. The person in front of you breathes out for a few minutes, filling the air space around him with his CO2. Then it’s the next person’s turn, and each person moves dutifully into the air space just vacated by the previous person. Unless the line is outside, or there is pretty strong air evacuation, this is a joke.
I don’t care about one-way traffic, I only care about the idiots who clog the aisle taking 5 minutes to decide what they want when everyone else has a list and could just grab their items and go.
In the Wal Mart Grocery section I walk down an aisle in the posted direction. Get to the end and proceed to the next lane over and that lane is marked the same direction as the one next to it.
Two adjacent lanes marked with the same direction. I think the employees at Wal Mart are having fun.
GOOD! for them. I IGNORE those stupid arrows. F that! I’m not going to be “micromanaged” in the freakin store!
I got in a big argument in the self checkout aisle in Walmart the other day over “social distancing”.
Much shouting pointing of fingers (yes, THAT finger) it was very close to coming to blows. Yes, the “race card” was played by them and I wasn’t playing that game. A Walmart employee was sent over to separate us and try to diffuse the situation.
I do have an explosive temper (not proud of that. It is something I have always struggled with), but I encroached on his social distancing space, while placing my items on the belt. He acted as if my purchases (I guess because I had “touched” them) had coronavirus cooties on them.
I hadn’t even realized that I had INVADED his 6 ft space, when he told (”TOLD” ME), to “respect” his social distancing. NOBODY “TELLS ME” what to do. Ask? fine TELL? not on you life.
As the argument unfolded, his wife?, baby mama, said it’s because we’re “Black”.
SAY WHAT? You accusing me of being a racist? This was starting to get ugly. Finally, we were separated by the “Black” Walmart employee who I was accused of “telling” as in “ordering my slave” (”my” words, of explanation), what to do.
Sure I “noticed” that they were “Black”. What I REALLY noticed was that they were purchasing ONE item and should be GONE momentarily. So, paying them no attention, as they would be gone before I got my cart unloaded, I continued to put my (cootie infected) groceries on the conveyor belt. Then, for some reason the belt started moving my cootie infested groceries right up to them. Close enough for a cootie to JUMP on them. At this point is when he verbally jumped all over me for violating the social distancing mandate.
Had I the chance to do it over again, I would have avoided the confrontation and allowed him to be a JERK of whatever color.
As we all know, there are no do overs. All we can do is ask for God’s forgiveness, (which I have done) and tell my story, so perhaps it will help someone else in some way.
One way streets work fine. People are idiots. “Takes longer to shop” means “I want to run the wrong way halfway down this aisle, and push people out of the way to get something I forgot”.
Shopping was actually EASIER when everybody was going the same way. Except for the idiots who couldn’t follow simple directions.
If you think that walking the wrong way down the aisle is “standing up to the man”, I suggest next that you walk up the down escalator, because that would REALLY put it to those evil powers trying to force you do to things their way.
You should also make sure to push all the buttons in the elevator, because who are they to force you to push the button for the floor you want.
And definitely, if you get a roundabout, drive clockwise, because you should never put up with being told which way to go.
They put those arrows on the floor where I go. But they’re completely counter to how I shop, right from starting off on the opposite side of the store from where I start. So I’ve been ignoring them. Nobody seems to care.
Those STUPID arrows have kept me from shopping at Giant for 5 weeks now.
Not going back any time soon - they seem to be a very liberal store.
The last time I was there, I was 25th in line to go to a checkout, they were monitoring and assigning checkout counters to the next in line.
Stood in line for 25 minutes to PAY for my groceries.
The one-way shopping aisles were designed to ensure shoppers were spaced out within its stores during the coronavirus pandemic.
It hasn't happened yet, but if someone in the public ever called me out, I'd swing around the cart in the proper direction and ask him how safe would he be if I passed him from behind while he was stopped, pondering a selection.
Was in a local grocery store this week, one with one-way arrows in the aisles. A mom and her teenage son came in from the wrong direction to grab something near the end of the aisle. The mom said “Wait - were going the wrong way”. The kid said “Who cares? Get it and let’s go”. Smart kid.
A Costco employee yelled at me last Sunday through a megaphone. A good friend of mine and I were standing next to each other in line. She didn’t have a Costco card so I took her there so she can buy things for her family. Not kidding.
Walmart put their cute little stickers on the floors of the stores here in Alabama, and not a single person has paid one bit of attention to them.