Local Aldi Social Distancing

[malagabob]

Wife went to local Aldi today expecting a queue. None walked straight in. Normally the last few weeks they had hired “ security “ to allow one in one out. Ask people to gel hands. Stop 2 people going in together. Ask why none of this. Staff told wife. Nobody was adhering to the policy. Walking in without gelling. Not keeping 2 metres apart. After couples being told only one in. 2nd person going in later to partner 1st. People walking against the flow arrows etc etc.
Wife was only person wearing latex gloves and a mask.

[Neveracrossword]

And did your wife notice other shoppers not keeping 2 metres apart, people walking against the flow, couples meeting up inside? If everything inside was working normally, lawfully, it sounds a reasonable outing. The gloves and mask is a personal choice... for now!

[TheDevil]

Well gloves and mask are in high demand imagine if they force you to wear them... It's not feasible.

If it's quiet shops relax measures and expect the public to take them into their own hands. Issue is half the public are thick.

[Neveracrossword]

'Half the public are thick' is your view, and maybe worth another thread. We don't know anything of the behaviour of Malagbob's wife's fellow shoppers today, so I feel unable to judge them.

[jno]

We don't know anything of the behaviour of Malagbob's wife's fellow shoppers today

yes we do, he's just told us.

[Neveracrossword]

Jno, sorry - I misread the OP a little. When I read 'the staff told wife... nobody was adhering to the policy. Walking in without gelling. Not keeping 2 metres apart...' I thought the staff were commenting on previous behaviour.

[jno]

they sound like people I wouldn't want to share a shop (or a virus) with.

Now in Waitrose you get carried around in your own personal sedan chair by staff in livery, so little risk to the shopper as long as you keep the roof down

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[ubasses]

I stopped going to Aldi about 3 weeks ago, there wasn't any hand gel, though when I came out the queue that had formed was being managed it seemed I was the only person in there trying to self distance.

[iluvmargie]

Got a surprise today when I went to Sains. to do my shopping, no queue and walked straight in. Not many inside either.

[Jordyboy9]

Iluvmargie,you had me wondering for a minute would it not be as easy to finish the word Sainsbury’s,or is there a sains?

[iluvmargie]

Strange question Jordy.

[Mamyalynne]

Maybe Jordy missed your full stop that indicated an abbreviation Margie.

[Jordyboy9]

Not really strange, I wondered for a minute if there was a store named Sains.

[ichkeria]

How do the “flow arrows” work?
Presumably as an initial guide.
I’m not sure any but the hyper organised have mastered unidirectional shopping

[johnny.5]

jordy ovs ilm is 2 busy 2 typ full words

Am I Right ?
I'm Not Wrong !

[Peter Pedant]

tell her to go elsewhere if she thinks it is important
OR if there is corona virus in the area

[iluvmargie]

You are wrong!

[Peter Pedant]

// I wondered for a minute if there was a store named Sains.//

but then I buried the idea ! ter-daaah !

god there are people more pedantic than I
I wouldnt have thought it possible

[Smowball]

Had to go to my local Lidl. Queue was all around the building but people were keeping apart. Took 30 ins to get to entrance. Then they had security who were letting just 10 in at a time, as 10 left, but once inside it was impossible to social distance as the aisles were so narrow.

[New Judge]

//but once inside it was impossible to social distance as the aisles were so narrow.//

Exactly. Even in larger stores the idea that everybody can keep two metres apart is pure fantasy. You head down an aisle, get to the end and passing from behind a row of shelves, out of your sight, comes another customer. You're within a foot or two of each other before either of you knows it. You can keep apart in the queue to get in and you might be able to keep apart in the queue to get out - provided the queue is not alongside a row of shelves laden with goods - which it usually is and then you get shoppers infiltrating the two metre gaps to pick up their goods.

Total farce, window dressing and, judging by the continued rise in the number of new cases, of no value whatsoever. (Cue: "Ah, but without it the numbers would be even greater").

[campbellking]

As an NHS employee I take advantage of Sainsbury's opening time for NHS staff (first half hour on a Saturday).Number in is strictly regulated, distancing lines and arrows in.All great apart from they have produce cages and shelf stackers everywhere and there is no way you can maintain a 2 metre distance to pass them. I do wonder if I say 'I work all day with COVID 19 positive patients' (which is true) some of them might disappear