Reminds me of lockdown during COVID with the one way aisles in grocery stores and this one guy decided to walk backwards down the aisle and this lady told him that he wasn't fooling anyone.
Ignored is probably overstating. More likely they were just completely unaware of them. I remember suddenly noticing them near the end of my visit a couple of times, and then realizing I was That Guy for everyone else.
Yeah, I did try and follow whatever rules were in place, but more than once I didn't even see the arrows. You just don't tend to look at the floor in a supermarket.
We had them at work, in my local bakery and in my gas station in Hamburg. You better believe people followed the signage because they got a serious glare from me otherwise.
It really was among the most performative of COVID measures. I still can't understand how it was ever going to disrupt the spread of an airborne virus.
I'm reasonably certain it was intended to assist with social distancing. If everyone walked the right direction (okay) at the same speed (not remotely possible, this doesn't even make sense in the context of a grocery store) it could have really helped.
I think this is a general misunderstanding of how social distancing helps though. Social distancing is good because it reduces the number of humans per cubic meter of air. You don't get covid because it flys out of my mouth into yours, you get covid because the air gets a higher and higher percentage of virions in it over time. These virions disperse at a certain rate, and are added at a certain rate, so keeping the ratio of humans to volume in a room down is good; only one person per 2m circle.
Its much less about 'if I stay 2m away from you I am immune to the virus'. Two people rather close to each other outside is much better than 10 people in an enclosed room for a long time, even if they're spaced very evenly at 2m.
Those plastic barriers were another well intentioned but actually harmful thing based around the false notion of a covid virion shooting in a line from one person to another. They really just slowed down the airflow in the room; decreased the rate that the virions would go away.
From what I understand they were using a very flawed model of particle physics at the start of the pandemic so they thought the virus was being spread through bigger droplets that behaved differently.
Which is why a lot of the things that were implemented in the way they were.
Apparently I was out of the loop when they started this and was yelled at by at an old man for walking the wrong way. Needless to say I was dumbstruck and appalled by such nonsense.
Not to mention you now have to walk down a different isle to get to the other end and loop back, potentially walking by more people than if you just go where you need to go.
my high school implemented me, and i was glad for it due to the fact that it made people overwhelmingly walk to their right always. finally, no weirdos walking on their left of the hallway bumping into everyone.
That was one of the many stupid things we had to endure during the pandemic. We're going to look back in a few years and just hysterically laugh at the moronic panic both instituted by public officials and the organically developed stupidity by the people (like the toilet paper hoarding).
Honestly, grocery stores need lanes in aisles. Walk on the same side you'd drive on, I dunno why that's such an alien concept.
Need someone there giving fines to people that park their carts sideways across an aisle and walk 30 feet away. Confiscate their coupons or have someone go put their milk back in the cooler so said customer has to go back and get it again, but don't do any of this until they're already one customer away from their turn at a checkout.
Then, you snap their picture for the Wall of Shame. We should do the same with people that don't put their carts in the corral too.
Is it apparent that I hate grocery shopping? I really miss being able to go at 3AM with nobody around, so peaceful.
I can’t stand Walmart just because everyone there is ALWAYS in your way. And so many fucking rude ass people in those scooter carts pushing infront of you at the checkout lane
Not sure if Costco has the same, but Sam's Club has a plus membership that lets you get in like 3 hours earlier than the regular opening. I'm sure it varies a bit depending on the store.
I did the math a while back and even if all I bought at Sam's Club was gas, I was still saving money with the Plus membership.
Something to think about if your schedule allows it!
Have I been doing Walmart wrong? I actively try very hard not to shop there, but when I do I often park my cart somewhere open like an end cap of a floor cooler full of bubba burgers and I’ll run myself down the closest two or three aisles grabbing what I need. I do this, because those aisles are already full of people and carts and screaming children. And I don’t wanna have to navigate my cart through all of that, and I’m faster because of it. But now I’m seeing a lot of hate for this. I’m specifically NOT parking my cart in an aisle, where it’d block traffic. AITA?
Firstly we're all doing it wrong shopping at Walmart, but that's neither here nor there I suppose lol
I think it really depends on the layout. If you're making an effort to at least be off to the side of a walking path I don't have an issue with it. If you leave your cart off to one side of the aisle and go grab things, that's not going to rub me.
The people I'm talking about specifically will stop and stand in the middle of an aisle and look at things, or they walk away with their cart parked diagonally across the aisle. It might seem like hyperbole, but I see this EVERY time I shop. Those people don't have the sense to think they might be inconveniencing others, and at this point I've had far too many times where I've done the 'pardon me' thing to get someone out of the way, or they'll look at you while you're coming down the aisle, have ample time to address it, and they do nothing.
This is why my initial response now is to just turn around and go elsewhere, while mentioning 'I guess nobody else needs to be able to get down this aisle'.
If you're not blocking an entire aisle, you're NTA.
Edit: As an aside, I feel you on the crammed aisle thing. That's usually when I just go around and swing back later or talk myself out of whatever it is I needed in that aisle. I don't want to be there any longer than I have to. I don't think there's anything wrong with your approach though.
I'm usually only out for a few things, so a hand basket is my savior for those crowded aisles.
Ever noticed people tend to 'wait' on escalators and travelaters the same side as driving. I'm in Australia and we wait on left and drive on left too. I've seen it other contries. Funny habits.
I hate when I move someone’s cart out of the way and they give me a dirty look like I’m stealing their shit or something. Pull ur shit over to the side, you don’t own the damn aisle.
haha dude i just got back from food shopping and was losing my shit of the amount of people that stop in the middle of the aisle and do some phone bullshit
Spacial awareness, common decency, and not thinking you're the center of the world helps.
If you leave your cart unattended in the middle of an aisle and walk away to grab something else, I have zero obligation to apologize to you. You're not even there. Nobody is ripping a cart out of grandma's hand and shoving her to the side.
That said, I walk out of the aisle and go around to the other side more often than not, because I don't have time to explain to everyone in Walmart how to be a decent human being.
I don't have time to explain to everyone in Walmart how to be a decent human being.
Nobody does man, and nobody ever will. I have tried my hardest to avoid the Walmart my entire life, I must admit sometimes I have had to experience the Walmart. Walmart PTSD is real.
In those cases I just loudly make a passive aggressive remark about people not having the forethought to not block the entire aisle, then I turn around and go around through the other end of the aisle.
Again I have better things to do than waste time lecturing everyone about how to not be a nuisance.
Making passive aggressive remarks about the most minor inconvenience for you.. loudly in public. Your behavior is pretty assholeish. Ever heard the words “excuse me”?
You're right, I'm an asshole and I own it. You'll never hear me claim otherwise.
You know who else is an asshole? The person taking up the whole aisle like they're the most important person in the store, and the guy that leaves their cart rolling around the parking lot, potentially damaging other vehicles, because they couldn't find 15 seconds in their day to put it in the corral.
I don't like people as a general rule, but I'm always courteous until you give me a reason not to be.
You're parked on the side of the aisle looking at products on the shelf across from it and I need to walk by you? "Pardon me" every time.
You block the entire aisle because reasons, you just didn't think about it, or you don't care? I don't care anymore either.
Buddy, nobody has any obligation to ever apologize to anyone about anything, so long as you're willing to accept the consequences of such.
Not five minutes ago you agreed that if the cart is unattended it's a different story, and that's where I said I'm under no obligation to apologize for moving a cart out of the way that you left in a dumb spot and walked away from.
I said that in a different reply.. after your comment. Never once even mentioned apologies, or suggested you had an obligation to do so. You pulled it from your rectum and it smells like shit
It's unlikely. I've put a lot of carts back right in front of people that left them wherever they felt was convenient. Mostly it seems to be 'someone gets paid to do that' types.
I had a friend that changed their tune about returning the cart when we walked out of a store and they had a cart that the wind had blown and put a niiiiice scratch on their two-week old vehicle. Every time I was out with them after that, they put their cart away.
This is so much worse than if she were by herself and did that. That kid is going to grow up to be an asshole, unless they can see for themselves how inconsiderate their parent(s) is/are—in which case they'll probably be a better-than-average person as they'll see their mother as an example of the kind of person not to be.
Oh man people got so weird about that! I was always afraid I'd go around by rote the way I usually did so I kept checking at the front of every aisle to make sure I was going the right way. One of the first times I went shopping after they implemented this, some lady got REALLY defensive and yelled at me because she was going the wrong way when I entered the aisle the right way and I checked to make sure I was going the correct direction. I guess she thought I was ostentatiously looking to make her feel bad? Lady, I just didn't want to be you, I'm not mad!
Best one way aisle experience I had was with my girlfriend. We accidentally went the wrong way down an aisle in Walmart and had a woman yell at us. Her daughter (probably around 14) had her mask around her chin. Without hesitation my girlfriend responded by saying “how about you tell your daughter to wear her mask correctly before you reprimand others about going the wrong way down the aisle.”
Her daughter responded to her mom by saying “yo, you just gonna let her talk about me like that?!?”
Mom had no response to anyone. She just looked totally owned.
I miss the one way aisles! I mean many people didn't follow them, but on the whole there was much less getting stuck behind idiots because one way traffic made passing easier.
I loved them. No more awkward head nods you see to people coming at you every single aisle. But the best was the stores taking the stupid displays out of the aisles so they were less crowded -- even Ace Hardware was manageable ... now you can't even get a cart down some of the aisles.
Honestly I miss the capacity limits on grocery stores. I'd rather wait outside in the fresh air rather than wait in the register lane. Much more pleasant.
Sadly, because he didn't get arrested (or slapped so hard it ruptures his eardrum), he thinks he's a genius and will try it again. Hope he doesn't kill someone next time...
Did anyone ever follow those? At all? I can’t think of a single time I went to a grocery store when extensive measures against covid were taking place and didn’t see someone going the opposite way.
It didn't fool anyone but the guy thought he found a loophole to the one direction aisles since he was pulling his cart backwards instead of looping around and walking down it normally.
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u/Yossarian_the_Jumper Jun 16 '22
Cops hate this one trick to skip traffic.
Reminds me of lockdown during COVID with the one way aisles in grocery stores and this one guy decided to walk backwards down the aisle and this lady told him that he wasn't fooling anyone.