Publix has removed one way aisles
 

I think it was a good decision from corporate to remove the one way aisles. Glad to be navigating the store in a more efficient manner.

amen! That was a dumb idea. You go to the Produce section and are next to people.:bigbow:

Great! Way too many rules that do nothing.

I noticed that yesterday while shopping there

in and out a little quicker now that we go up and down only the aisles that we need to

There are definitely advantages to not having one way aisles, but when I first started my shopping the other day, I almost froze in place. Wasn’t sure which way to go! ;-)

Some people-- including me at times-- did not always follow the floor arrows at Publix or at the other stores that have/had these.

And at Walmart it seems that the arrows are rarely which way the traffic flows.

Made a little mistake in one of our Publixes. There was a line with a very attractive female cashier and a nice looking woman also waiting with her cart with more than ten items . And stupid person that I am I chose the ten or fewer line because I had nine items. I should have got in the line with the attractive ladies. What was I thinking! Got in the 10 or less aisle with the friendly guy cashier.

I did note that in this Publix all the aisles I was in no longer had arrows on the floor. Maybe I was dazed and confused by the change.

I did get off a birthday card to an old flame who moved out of the Villages a few years ago. Hope she is doing well. Not sure if she is on Talk of the Villages or not. She could be. Her birthday is coming up quick. Had bought her birthday card at Walmart yesterday where they still had up a few of the floor arrows but only here and there.

Had to get a number of birthday cards at Walmart yesterday though so had to go in the over 10 (or 15?) lines. I have a lot of friends and family members with September birthdays.

Good.

I do not like this decision, bad move this early by corporate.

It was a very stupid rule. You would have to do much more walking to do your shopping. If an item was a quarter way down the isle one would have to travel 1 3/4 aisle lengths to reach it if the arrow pointed the wrong way.

To this day I can not fathom how people thought this was a good idea. I believe we are in an age where virtue signaling has gone into an Orwellian phase.

All you had to do was leave your cart at the end of the aisle, walk up and get your item. No worse than if you walked passed your item when walking the correct way. Do you actually think anyone would walk all the way around again?

I would do that often.

Actually from Publix standpoint it was a great scheme to increase impulse buying. They design their stores to maximize the amount of walking customers need to pickup what is on their shopping list. And it probably worked well. The only problem is that it increased time in store which increased probability of exposure.

In the beginning of this stupid rule, I went ten feet into an aisle, saw that it was blocked by a stock person putting up toilet paper and turned around. Just then a lady came into the aisle and freaked out and told me I was going the wrong way.


So from then on, to avoid upsetting nervous Nellies, I followed the rules unless the aisle was empty.

So yes I took the long way around.

If I needed something and the arrow was pointed towards me, I just walked backwards to get the item I needed. Definitely a stupid idea because you often walk past and very close to people who are in an isle shopping.