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Originally Posted by Swoop
Chaos & bumping into people? The stores are already limiting customers to a fraction of their rated capacity. Before limiting the number of shoppers, there wasn’t chaos. Directional isles only slow things down further, without any benefit. I don’t know about you, but I don’t really want to spend more time in the store than necessary. If you are that uncomfortable in a grocery store, just get someone to shop for you, or get your groceries delivered.
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Publix isn't limiting the customer capacity. Some of the stores were already pretty busy during certain times of the day before the virus. Once the virus hit and people swarmed to get items they thought they'd need in case the country shut down, it was pretty chaotic in some of the aisles. Especially canned veggies and fruits, and the cereal and bread aisles.
We're supposed to try and maintain a 6' distance from each other. That's impossible to do if you have a cart on the other side of the aisle with a woman standing to the side of it in the middle of the aisle, checking products while another person is slightly ahead of you stopped to read labels, and you have to squeeze between the two to get past them to where you want to be. Soon as you do that you are now putting three different people in jeopardy. Now multiply that situation by 10, in each very long aisle, at the same time employees have their floats stacked with boxes of product that they have to unpack and put on the shelves.
If you limit it to one-way aisles, you reduce the number of people in the aisle at any given moment and provide some semblance of order during busy times. This reduces the risk of getting too close to the other people.
The concern isn't that they're bumping into each other - which happens. The concern is getting too close. You can't carry around a measuring tape and measure 6 feet to ensure no one is crossing the line. But you can estimate if you're barely an arms-length away from someone else.
One way traffic reduces that risk.