Are your grocery stores

yes, we still have them in many stores (grocery stores, hardware stores, liquor stores, etc).

i find them hardest to keep up with in the grocery stores. usually my mind is spinning with what do i need, where is it, so i *try* but am not 100% on that front.

Yes.  I actually like it.  I would have liked it if it started in normal times. It is easier to get around people looking if you are in a hurry or people can get around you if you need to stop and look.  But I will agree it takes time to get in the groove of it, especially if you forget something.  And in just the aisles, not the ends and produce area.  

What is that saying...different strokes for different folks?   🤷‍♀️

ETA -  I can see this is another time I am going to be the lone dissenter.  Hahaha.  But to be honest, I just think it makes it easier to get down aisles without carts going every which way and people stopped both ways and you can’t get around. I do not wait for people I go around people who are stopped.  You are stopped I can easily get around you...so it really isn’t as much for safety as easier movement.  😄  

I also think it’s one more layer for people to get angry with other shoppers. We’ve all seen the people in the stores not wearing their mask correctly, or not wearing one at all. I have a friend who freaked out yesterday because she saw all these people coming out of the grocery store without their masks on. I said well maybe they took them off as they were walking out. She got all nervous and jerky and said “ I don’t understand and I was going to say something.” Why say anything when you’re not even in the store or near them?I am not saying a word to anyone who’s not wearing a mask or is gone the wrong way in an aisle. I’m done correcting other people. I’ll take care of myself

One store is. I think they’re stupid. Because even in one way aisles, your still by people. And I will not wait behind someone if they stop. So if I pass them what’s the difference if we’re facing the same direction or not?

And the dumb plexiglass, that isn’t doing anything either. And neither is “sanitizing” the belt before I put my food down for checkout.

My local grocery store just removed the arrows this week ... makes life so much easier    

I agree with you about wishing they would go away but why do you want them to stop enforcing the mask mandate?

Not the grocery stores. But small shops and several tourist spots have this. For example, Castle Gravensteen has a separate entrance and exit and you no longer exit through the gift shop. And many of the little shops in Brugge have one way directions and you aren’t supposed to touch anything that you aren’t going to buy. We haven’t been out in about a month, so I can’t say if that’s still the case now, although we haven’t moved to a new phase even though our numbers are way down again.

Both the ALDI and Publix that I shop at regularly have them but they are almost universally ignored at both stores. I’m generally a rule follower. It bothers me to not follow a ‘rule’ like that.

But although I try to follow the arrows, I really think they are counterproductive. It makes me stay in the grocery store longer rather than being able to dart to what I need and get out. There’s whole aisles I buy nothing on, but I end up having to go down them to be on the correct end for the aisle I need. I’d rather get in and out quickly. Less exposure to other people and their germs!

I can't answer the poll because I don't know. I never followed the arrows anyway so I don't look for them. It's stupid, ineffective and just theater to give people a false sense of safety.

Ours never had them. I agree they would have been pretty useless. Wear a mask, don't linger within 6 feet of others, keep your hands away from your face, and wash your hands when you get home.

Ours have them and they are generally followed. I don’t find it that big of a deal to manage my trip thru the store following the arrows. I might need to walk a bit more, but that’s good for me and minor.

Why the heck do you wish the mask mandate would go away? I’m super glad we have it and hope it sticks until we have a vaccine.

Same. I saw no point to them because people were still passing each other in the isle.

Did it really matter that they were going the same way? Nope.

Only Sprouts and Albertson's had them.

I haven't been to a grocery store in almost 3 weeks. I don't know if they're still doing the arrows or not. The grocery store I frequent most often never did the arrows to begin with, but I noticed them in Aldi the last time I was there (after I was nearly finished with shopping and realized I had forgotten an item off my list and ended up having to do some kind of weird maze to get back to where I needed to be).

I voted no because the grocery store I shop at mostly took them out.  Other stores I have been to I have seen the arrows but 90% of people are not following them. I try to but it doesn't always happen.  I am not walking down another aisle to go down another aisle when there is no one in sight.  If there are people around then I do my best... but no one else is.