Just my totally unscientific observation

Let me clarify, all the carts are headed in the same direction, so people are following the one way rules, but many times they are side by side grabbing items from either side of the aisle, or there are people walking who shop without a cart. Not being assholes, just shopping in crowded aisles, so no point in having one way destinations.

Obviously E!

I find myself giving these people dirty looks....then I remember I’m wearing a mask and no one can see me judging them 🤦🏻‍♀️ I need to start packing my angry eyes but between the mask, hand sanitizer, reusable bags, etc I’d never remember.

So dh does most of the shopping for our house right now. However, today I was in a town with Walmart so I quickly went in to get the last school supply item that I couldn’t do online. So shopping under the “new norm” is not something I do often. Picked up a few other items and I didn’t grab a basket so I was trying to balance all the items on the binder. While there I wanted to see if they had any hand sanitizer and Lysol wipes. I went down the aisle (the correct way)for hand sanitizer and it was out. At that time a few of my items fell to the floor so I picked them up and after all that I turned back down and went out the aisle the same way I came in. Unfortunately someone else was going down the same time and I got a glare. It was truly an accident. I wasn’t meaning to be entitled, not giving a damn or an asshole. FTR I had my mask on properly and I think people look like idiots with their nose dickys.

I wish everyone would just issue a little more grace towards people and understanding that we are all trying to get used to the new way of shopping and sometimes in a moment of being flustered by items falling to the ground, etc they forget. Instead I feel people are being judgy and self righteous. (This is not directed at OP but at the bitch that glared at me today). Idk I guess I just show empathy and assume everyone is trying to do their best.

I vote F, for Freakin’ dumb. DH showed me a video on Facebook of some guy who went into a store that had a mask requirement wearing a metal mesh face mask, like maybe someone would wear to protect their face in a contact sport. The gist of his comments was that it was a mask and nobody in the store told him it didn’t comply and that he was fully aware that it wouldn’t stop anything from coming out of his nose or mouth going into the air and his point was that the mask restrictions were stupid.   The bottom line was he was just being an asshole.

There is no way I’m going to glare at someone for whom it was clearly an accident. It’s is true that once you’re in an aisle, if you have to back up in that same aisle it’s a complete pain to go backwards, and frustrating to go around and re-enter. I certainly think grace is called for there. I feel like mask wearing helps as much so I’m just happy to see other people wearing them, period.

But if I’m going around the store, and I run into you (general you) coming back up the aisle at me every. single. time. I might be aggravated enough to glare the 10th time it happens. 😂

F - freakin' Covidiot

I don’t believe I’ve seen directional arrows in any of the grocery stores here - but like you, I’ve mostly been using curbside. I could easily absentmindedly wander the wrong way down an aisle, particularly if I’m nervous about too many people around.

But it’s also quite easy to imagine folks who won’t wear a mask and also won’t be told which direction to travel down a grocery aisle, just to prove some stupid point.

I'm the asshole who went down the wrong way in the aisles in Aldi the other day. I was wearing a mask like I always do, but had forgotten an item and couldn't figure out how to get back to where I needed to be while following arrows (I didn't even notice they HAD arrows until I was halfway through the store). I suppose I could have checked out and gone back into the store to buy my forgotten item...

I wear a mask when out and constantly am going the wrong way in the aisles. I just don't think about when shopping. I have the order I like to shop in and the one way aisles don't match that. I don't think I am intentionally any of those things except maybe ignorant of the one way, but again, not intentionally.

I have also seen plenty of people going the correct way in the aisles wearing masks incorrectly, so it goes both ways.

I never notice the arrows on the floor. They’re just not in my field of vision. I have to remind myself every time I go into the grocery store (once every 2-3 weeks) to look out for the arrows. Our Costco doesn’t have any.