Do arrows in a supermarket really make much difference?

[LittleOgres]

From what I can see hardly anyone adheres to the arrows anyway. As long as you keep 2m apart from people does it matter whether you are going the same way or not?
I wait at busy aisles and wait for people to finish at an item before I go to it, but most people just seem to do their shop as usual. Makes me wonder if we should just scrap the arrows, and try to enforce the 2m ideal more? Also it would free up staff from monitoring people on the right direction.

I don't go to my Tescos any more because the arrows take you around the whole store. I go to a much smaller Aldi where they limit the number of people with traffic lights, or the Sainsbury's which is much nicer anyway and doesn't have a one way system.

It’s impossible at the Tesco metro near me because staff block the aisles while restocking shelves (as is their job, it’s fine), but no one seems that fussed about the arrows and just keeps as far apart as possible. I don’t mind either way

Well, as for hardship, my local Asda, 2.5 miles away has, on the ground floor, around 30 aisles. It was the largest hyper market in the country when it opened in 1974 as Carrefour. Oh and plus the upstairs of 12 aisles.

That's a lot of walking up and down.

Why do people write isles? That’s islands!
Same reason they write que?
Our local Tesco Express has 3 aisles with the till at the end of the 3rd aisle. If you follow the arrows you go up the 1st one and back down the 2nd and then you're stuck in no-man's-land - there's no way you can get to the 3rd one if you follow the arrows.

I was in a supermarket where to get to the soup, which was about 6 feet from me, I had to go down another aisle, navigate within 6 feet of several people waiting in line to pay, then walk back up the aisle containing the soup.

It made no sense, so I just waited till the aisle was empty, then walked the wrong way down the aisle for the 6 feet it took to get to the soup, without coming within 6 feet of anyone else.

A member of staff then told me off for walking the wrong way down the aisle.

Then he walked the wrong way down the aisle.

I don't shop there any more

the shop assistant took me up the aisle in the wrong direction! then a customer complained and the shop assistant retaliated, loudly!

the worst is the shop assistant stocking up, leaving no room