To find it strange my local corner shop still have social distancing posters up?

[asblindasabat]

So at my local corner shop, they still have Perspex screens up at the counter (fair enough as any supermarket I’ve been in recently still have them up) but I just find it weird that they still have warning posters up around the shop and on the door to tell people to keep 2 metres apart at all times - oh and they still have a sign up telling people to wear a mask even though they haven’t legally been required for months.

Ok It is good to distance to some extent, I wouldn’t want somebody walking over the top of me, but surely the days of keeping people 2 metres apart and wearing masks are long gone? Although I do like the way they keep hand sanitizer at a table at the front door.

Nobody really does wear a mask in that shop now anyway, nor do I, and nobody has ever said anything but it’s just strange - maybe they’ve forgotten to take the signs down!

You literally answered your own question with the last line. What else is it going to be? Some huge conspiracy?

They are just blind to it

Most places still have something to remind us of covid 19

Our local shop is the same, the just haven’t bothered to take them down. They don’t expect anyone to follow the instructions.

My corner shop has an ad for a girls football team from the 90s...

In my London office we still have posters that someone printed off from the Irish department of Health that someone printed in a panic in Feb 2020.

I've not taken them down as would damage paint work and look worse

An advertising poster from 1989 stayed in front of a corner shop near me till 2015!

NOOO I like your corner shop.

As someone who likes their own space that was the only upside of lockdowns.

I was going to say something similar, some of the posters in the window look older than me!

I agree but if someone was standing too close to me, I’d sure as hell tell them to move!

Lots of shops and cafes here that have faded old social distancing stickers on the floor.
Still see hand sanitiser in a lot of shop entrances too. At least there is no longer a security guard barking at you to apply some.

All our local shops (3') have mask signs and our community centre has the wash your hands for 20 seconds notice still up our shopping centre lift had "only the same household " sign up until recently. Our lamppost has a keep distance plastic signs round. Clearly where I live is stuck in a time warp .

@asblindasabat
Considering how covid has enlightened everyone how bugs and germs can spread and be mimisied, I guess these methods would help ?

So have we. I cba to pick the sellotape off the window. I'll take them down once they start peeling off at the edges so I can pull it.

maybe the shop owner, staff or a close family member is vulnerable (cancer treatment comes to mind).
so i simply follow along and am respectful that some people have health conditions that makes getting covid or flu dangerous to them.

If you work in a shop, how will the customers keeping 2m apart help you?

@XenoBitch , first off less people in the shop and second they are standing farther away from you the customer.