OT: SitRep Morrisons

[Jimk]

Arnchair expertise?

[Tim Streater]

To Morrisons Canterbury today. They have barriers up for queueing just like at the airport. You take your trolley with you in the Q. This is just the Q to get in the store; while waiting you respect the pavement markings of two metres separation.

Then they let you in, presumably balancing input to output, so you may have to wait a few minutes to get in, but overall the Q wasn't that long. People density inside quite low, so generally easy to maintain separation.

No flour, yeast, chicken thighs, only Heinz beans (again) but pretty much everything else including loo rolls. I don't know what the purchase limits are, we wanted a couple of butter blocks and a couple of Flora but seems Flora counts as butter so we gave up a Flora.

Q for tills organised inside the store in much the same way, but a lot shorter queuing length than outside (unsurprising). Only one of each pair of tills in operation. This maintains the person spacing. You are directed to a till from the head of the Q by a staff person. Large perspex screen between you and the till person.

Overall, well organised, I thought.

[T i m]

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So no chicken pasties for you then? ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[spuorgelgoog]

Posting from a Greenbee account, that'll be poulet en croute :-)

Owain

[T i m]

Yes, of course. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[PeterC]

Thanks for this - I went to Waitrose today on the assumption that it would be civilised there; it was, of course, but knowing that Morrisons is doing things well is useful - to the tune of about 10 quid today. Not worried about the extra cash really - when I used Morrisons I'd go across to the Malt Shovel and spend £12+! anyway.

[charles]

but they'd be shut.

[Chris Hogg]

Much the same for the 'oldies hour' at our small local Tesco. Got there early, 9AM, and the well-spaced queue was quite short. One out - one in, a bit like a barrier-operated full car park! Went round the store in a singe file crocodile, always 2 metres behind the person in front. If someone stopped to browse, we all stopped. Took me about 30 minutes, I suppose, but shelves pretty well stocked. When I came out, directed through the emergency exit to avoid the people coming in, the queue had grown considerably and was all the way to the end of the car park. A few people tried to remonstrate with the staff and claim special treatment, but didn't get it. Good!

[Bob Eager]

It's what our Aldi are doing.

[PeterC]

Precisely. That's why I'm spending less overall. 3 or 4 times in the pub, tips to the staff...