Supermarkets and Stacking

[ilovebagpuss]

I know I have lost patience with shopping as a whole and I’m not having a go at the wonderful staff BUT can anyone who works in a supermarket explain the following:
Hoards of stackers everywhere with the big stacker trolley so no one can get down aisles and distance safely. I have noticed this in Tesco Co Op and Sainsbury’s.
Yes I’m a whinge bag but why are they constantly in the way? Are night/evening stackers not allowed? Has the supply chain changed? It’s doing my nut. I’ve just come back from local Co op and two guys with massive stackers are doing the freezers blocking most of the aisle.
Shoppers trying to get past and round them to get items out it must drive them mad too.

I work at the co op, but a very small one.

We used to close for deliveries but this has stopped, its individual managers discretion how many customers to allow in. But unless you have someone on door monitoring it's difficult to keep on top of, lots of customers just barge in.

Frozen things need to be put out quickly for obvious reasons. But it's next to impossible to stack shelves with customers in store in a social distanced way. Not sure about other supermarkets but co op has deliveries during the day through the week, small stores with limited storage means overnight stacking isn't a possibility.

Right thanks that makes sense perhaps I just haven’t clocked it before then as it’s the socially distanced bit that makes it more noticeable.

It was better when the store closed for deliveries as we could just get on with it and not worry about getting in the way of customers, so understand the frustration from the customer perspective as it is difficult.