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

swingaloo

I love the shoppers who arrive at the store all prepared to go into battle, mask and gloves on. Then proceed to completely ignore the arrows and put everyone else at risk. 
Ive been trying not to say anything to those shoppers who seem hellbent on going whichever way they like and have tried to make my point with 'The Look' as my husband calls it. But today I passed a guy going up the down aisle and so passed him again in the next aisle, again he was going the wrong way. I passed him 5 times and each time he was going the opposite way to the arrows so when he was approaching me on the last occasion I turned my trolley to the side and pretended to be checking out something on the shelf just to make it a  bit awkward. When he got to me he grabbed my trolley and shoved it into me with the words 'Stupid bloody woman'. So I told him that going the wrong way against the arrows again and again was beyond stupid to which he told me to 'Go away nicely' but not in those exact words.
It hasn't helped that our local store have chosen this last week to completely move everything in the store so because you don't know where everything is you spend far longer in store than would have been necessary had they left it as it was.  

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Missy79 said:

Door 'guard' at my local Tesco garage inevitably stands in the doorway itself, apparently they don't count. 

Imagine how many "close encounters" that guard is getting on a daily basis?

boliston

i have noticed my local sainsburys has all the arrows going the same way, towards the checkouts which means once you are at the checkout side there is no way you can go along any other aisles - luckily i always shop with a basket rather than a huge trolley (hate the things!) so i can be more 'stealthy' if i have to sneak past someone who is faffing about deciding which types of pasta/rice to stockpile

ChrisSmith87

I fully understand that social distancing is vitally important but please can someone explain to me the necessity for the arrows.

Surely to decrease the risk of transmission the less time people spend in the store the better? If I know what I need to buy and what aisle to go down, surely making me walk passed lots of people down aisles that I don’t need to go down is counter productive?

I was in Tesco the other day and a member of staff shouted at me for taking 10 steps in the wrong direction, even though there was no one else down the aisle. She wanted me to walk the other way, go down the next aisle, that potentially had people down it, and come back down following the arrows! How is following the arrows going to help in this situation. Also the fact that at the end of the aisles in my local Tesco (the bit between the aisles and the checkouts) you can walk in any direction? 

Surely some common sense has got to come in to play? 

hollydays

This is sooo last week.