What Is It That People Don't Understand About The Arrows On Supermarket Floors ?

waamo

Given that people don't seem to understand stay at home how on earth will they figure out arrows?

izzitme

The home delivery pickers are working off a device that is "mapped" for the most efficient picking journey in normal circumstances. The store has probably not updated the devices to allow for the arrows. If they were to follow the arrows it would take longer to do the pick & therefore slow the whole delivery system down.

EssexExile

Supermarkets have arrows? My staff haven't told me about this.

Ibizafan

At least our Sainsbury’s doesn’t have arrows, only the two metre markers. Problems I noticed this morning were pickers having their trolleys in the middle of an aisle so having to negotiate around them, and then not being able to observe the two metre rule. Also, as someone else has pointed out, people waiting for checkouts in the aisles themselves, which makes it a bit of an obstacle course. On the plus side, there were no queues at all to get in the store at 10.15am!

suki1964

Our Tesco is very good with the arrows and blocking the middle aisles so you cant cut across.

We also have only one queue for the checkout so there is no bottle necking of people turning into an aisle and meeting a queue

Very well organised , someone on the door doing the one in and one out, two people directing you to a checkout plus runners to grab the stuff you forgot cos you were following the arrows. Can take longer in the queue to get in then to get the shop but I don't mind, not like Ive anywhere else to rush too and its a pure pleasure to shop there

They just need to get the shelves re stocked, they still haven't improved from the panic shopping

molerat

izzitme said:

The home delivery pickers are working off a device that is "mapped" for the most efficient picking journey in normal circumstances. The store has probably not updated the devices to allow for the arrows. If they were to follow the arrows it would take longer to do the pick & therefore slow the whole delivery system down.

I am afraid that one won't wash !

https://www.gov.scot/news/social-distancing-regulations-strengthened/

The adjustments to the regulations include formalising the two metre distancing rules to all businesses that remain open. Businesses that do not take all reasonable measures to enforce those rules could be fined or ultimately prosecuted.

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I managed to go hypo (low blood sugar, diabetic) and have a panic attack in a shop on Wednesday.  I was trying very very hard to maintain distance from people (quite a few of whom looked as stressed as I was), find items, figure out what queuing requirements were, queue in pain (arthritis), arrows were one step to far.  I was vaguely aware there were arrows but I couldn't read them. It was too complicated, particularly as I didn't need to go through the whole shop (in the big store I was in at the time).  I saw loads of people looking as stressed as I was.  Arrows are a good idea in theory but possibly not in practice.

oldagetraveller1

waamo said:

Given that people don't seem to understand stay at home how on earth will they figure out arrows?

Particularly the dual standards displayed, again, by those who congregated on Westminster Bridge, last Thursday.

ToxicWomble

People have trouble following speed limit signs, no parking signs etc etc - an arrow on the floor is no different, there will always be an element that think the rules don’t apply to them for some reason or another.

lincroft1710

The other thing is habit, you go down aisle 2, you know you don't want aisle 3 or 4, so proceed to aisle 5 and start going down against the traffic flow