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Giant will no longer enforce one-way aisles in its supermarkets
Pennlive ^ | 14 May A.D. .2020 | Chris Mautner

Posted on 05/14/2020 6:40:53 AM PDT by lightman

Shoppers at Giant no longer have to worry if they’re going the wrong way down the supermarket aisles.

The Carlisle-based Giant Company has taken down the signs and arrows that encouraged customers to adhere to one-way foot traffic in all of its stores, according to a spokesperson.

“We listen closely to our customers, and many expressed that the directional arrows, while well intended, could increase shopping time,” said Ashley Flowers, public relations manager for the chain. “As a result, we removed the directional arrows."

All other signage and social distancing measures remains in place, however, and customers will continue to be expected to wear masks in the stores.

The one-way shopping aisles were designed to ensure shoppers were spaced out within its stores during the coronavirus pandemic.

Since the pandemic began, grocery stores have enacted a variety of measures, from erecting sneeze guards at registers to dedicating shopping hours for senior citizens and those with compromised immune systems.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: giant; pandemic; pennsylvnaia; supermarket
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The one-way aisles were putting the Karens on steroids.

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.

1 posted on 05/14/2020 6:40:53 AM PDT by lightman
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2 posted on 05/14/2020 6:42:24 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Our local Safeway has one-way aisles, but very few have seemed to pay any attention. I haven’t seen any conflict or ‘nervous nellies’ complaining.


3 posted on 05/14/2020 6:45:14 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: lightman
The one-way aisles were putting the Karens on steroids.

LOL, I wish they would stay home and respect the stay at home orders their hero's have pronounced.

4 posted on 05/14/2020 6:45:42 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: lightman

I have not been into a supermarket in the Houston area that did this. They changed some entrances and exits to entrance only on one end and exit out the other, but that’s it.


5 posted on 05/14/2020 6:45:56 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: lightman

The WalMart I shop at has arrows. Few follow them, including employees. I’m pretty sure people don’t notice them or care. I also see more and more not wearing masks while shopping. No one freaks out if they see a person without a mask. When masks go back to options, I suspect nearly eveyone will stop wearing them in my area.


6 posted on 05/14/2020 6:48:21 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: lightman

what arrows? never saw em. /s


7 posted on 05/14/2020 6:48:30 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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To: lightman

This is a good move!


8 posted on 05/14/2020 6:48:41 AM PDT by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: lightman

The one way aisles were the idiotic collective brainchild of the “well we have to do something” mindset. There was never an iota of logic behind them and nobody paid any attention to them.


9 posted on 05/14/2020 6:52:20 AM PDT by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: kvanbrunt2

I never learned how to read.

Je ne parle Anglais.

/s


10 posted on 05/14/2020 6:53:06 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

No stores around here have aisle arrows. It sounds like it would increase incidental contact as one would often have to go up an extra aisle to start at the correct end of the desired aisle if you don’t shop the whole store. (My wife and I have opposite shopping styles. I go up and down each aisle, taking what suits my fancy, she has a strict list, and keeps to it, using only half the aisles.) We don’t have a huge Karen problem here. We have a lot of Hispanics, and in general they are immune to Karens.


11 posted on 05/14/2020 6:53:16 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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We don’t have a huge Karen problem here. We have a lot of Hispanics, and in general they are immune to Karens.

The only positive to "practice social distancing" in these parts is that I no longer encounter swarms of Hispanics and Asians getting into my personal space.

My definition of "personal space" is far less than the CDC's but theirs has apparently been NONE.

12 posted on 05/14/2020 6:56:46 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SueRae

Fewer rules will create more business and profits. Good Idea.


13 posted on 05/14/2020 6:56:59 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: lightman

My favorite was the bread aisle at the local Walmart. Following the arrows made it impossible to do it right. Break the rules vs. stay in the bread aisle forever. That was at least worth a laugh.

The arrows are silly, and we have a huge population that’s incapable of following rules anyway. Ability to follow rules and ability to use an EBT card are not related. Pointless rules mean even those who can follow them (and read them in English) won’t.


14 posted on 05/14/2020 6:58:28 AM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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It wasn't like people were really following the arrows. I just asked my daughter if she saw the arrows at Giant and she said yes, and they were also at Karns too. I usually go to Karns, but haven't been to Giant for about a month. I didn't even notice the arrows at Karns and I have been going about my merry way shopping, sans mask. My daughter says people were not following the arrows at Giant either. No problems.

What I really don't like about Karns is the single file line to the meat counter that stretches down an entire aisle. No one social distances in the line, which is fine with me, but the line itself remains an inconvenience. Just shows that the rule defeats the purpose - people stack up. But it's a nice place to express one self. The last time I explained to my daughter what lines were like in the former Soviet Union and how we should be happy with all the products available on the shelves. Pure sarcasm of course, and I made sure people could over hear our conversation.

15 posted on 05/14/2020 6:59:08 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (It's official! I'm nominated for the 2020 Mr. Hyperbole and Sarcasm Award.)
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To: lightman

Have they taken down those annoying aisle blocking displays? I’m guessing no.

Until they do that they have no business trying to limit shopper contact with directional arrows, as these displays cause much more crowding than shoppers moving both ways through the aisles.


16 posted on 05/14/2020 7:05:15 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: dead

You’re right “well, we have to do something.” That’s why we have to wear masks. We have the one-way errors, I mean, arrows at the supermarket where I shop. I seem to be one of the few that follows them.

I recognize that they are meaningless, but, for the sake of comity, I comply.


17 posted on 05/14/2020 7:25:22 AM PDT by bagman
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To: lightman

They have them in our local grocery store. From day one they were ignored and no one cares.


18 posted on 05/14/2020 7:27:35 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: lightman

The rules will now be enforced by dwarfs and midgets.


19 posted on 05/14/2020 7:29:43 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: lightman

One small step for Karen

One Giant leap for mankind


20 posted on 05/14/2020 7:35:21 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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