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

ToxicWomble

It’s a cunning ploy to make you go down every aisle to spend more money !

It does make you have to think beforehand what you need rather than adopt the usual scattergun approach towards filling the trolley 

Steve_L

Is it time to start reporting failures in enforcing social distancing breaches in supermarkets, whether by shoppers or staff? Mobile phones provide a means of gathering photographic evidence. There is already a reporting structure for social distancing breaches. Ignoring a wrongdoing is complicity in that wrongdoing.

tempus_fugit

I don’t know if this has been said already, as I haven’t read the thread, but the problem with the arrows is that if you miss an item and have to go back for it, then if we all had to follow the arrows stringently we would either have to do without it or go to the till and come back in to het the missed item. And before anyone says “you should do a list”, we do, but the shops move stuff around so it’s not always easy to know where things are, or if it’s something we haven’t bought for a while. So, I think the arrows should be for guidance and not an excuse to get all officious, which a lot of people seem to be using this crisis as an excuse to do and enjoying the power. I see far worse breaches of social distancing each day than following religiously a few arrows in a supermarket.

ToxicWomble

Steve_L said:

Is it time to start reporting failures in enforcing social distancing breaches in supermarkets, whether by shoppers or staff? Mobile phones provide a means of gathering photographic evidence. There is already a reporting structure for social distancing breaches. Ignoring a wrongdoing is complicity in that wrongdoing.

Who are you going to report to and what action do you think they can take - nothing illegal is being done

Social distance is only guidance (albeit very sensible guidance) 

Simply_Ted

I totally agree with the OP (thank you Molerat) and all the remarks about staff not following the arrows. Last week I was following the arrows in Tesco's and met up with two of their internet shoppers, together in the aisle, going the opposite way. When I questioned them, they said they are following the "map" on their devices, which has been mentioned here. Also I was there during the 9-10pm slot for the elderly/vulnerable and was amazed to see people of all age groups. I wonder why the security guard who was adopting the one in one out policy, let them in. If the excuse is they were shopping on behalf of their granny, isn't it a bit like borrowing a blue badge when your'e not disabled to get parked closer to the store. I went home and sent an email to the CEO and got a quick reply. The only suggestion they could make was for me to try click and collect - as they are putting me on priority, but its still first come first served.  I went to Sainsburys about 3 weeks ago, the store is much larger and wider aisles, and everything went well, so I will be returning to them when necessary. I just think that everyone should be following the same rules.

Steve_L

ToxicWomble said:

Steve_L said:

Is it time to start reporting failures in enforcing social distancing breaches in supermarkets, whether by shoppers or staff? Mobile phones provide a means of gathering photographic evidence. There is already a reporting structure for social distancing breaches. Ignoring a wrongdoing is complicity in that wrongdoing.

Who are you going to report to and what action do you think they can take - nothing illegal is being done

Social distance is only guidance (albeit very sensible guidance) 

The supermarkets. The individual also has responsibilty, but identification would be just this side of impossible. The guidance has a provision for businesses who don't ensure SD in their premises to be fined and, presumably for repeated breaches, even prosecuted. It was quoted earlier in this thread. That's what made me wonder if it was time to start using it.

dogmaryxx

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JosephK

Thank you, Dogmaryxx - just about sums it up. Personally find the one-way arrows make it easy but my favourite gripe, those who block the aisles with their trollies while having a friends & family gossip catch up, have been replaced by another - the person who stands in the middle of the aisle, thus stopping anyone else using it, whilst gazing for an age bemused at tins of beans/ loaves of bread/ packets of custard, etc. wondering what they are and presumably hoping they will leap off the shelf into their trolley.

Steve_L

A revealing thing happened on my last trip to Tesco. No, latest. I hope it isn't my last. Anyway, when I was called forward to a checkout, I went to it but then hung back, as they were using all the checkouts and the person using the one to my left in tHE shared checkout "aisle" wouldn't have been 2 metres away. The young lad came forward and I wondered if I was going to be in trouble. However, when I pointed out the situation, he smiled and walked away. This shows that they knew that not using alternate checkouts and what they were asking people to do was wrong.

PS. No change earlier today.

Missy79

Shopped at Aldi last week, despite having 7 checkouts they only had 2 open. Next to each other. This meant that the shoppers from one were about a foot away from the checkout operator on the next and both queues were unnecessarily close together. 
Door 'guard' at my local Tesco garage inevitably stands in the doorway itself, apparently they don't count. 
Way too many people shopping in couples/groups in both (definitely not single parents/people needing assistance).