05-24-2020, 02:17 PM
(05-22-2020, 11:57 AM)panamaniac Wrote:(05-22-2020, 11:53 AM)neonjoe Wrote: Hardware stores?
Not likely (imo). From what I've seen, they have been first rate at social distancing. Far better than supermarkets, in fact.
My experience is limited to one trip to each of two different stores, but neither were too inspiring. They had the line up out the door and were controlling entry, of course, but once inside people weren't acting differently to as they normally would, were ignoring arrows and so on.
It's not too concerning to me how customers act, though- I figure that they are there for a few minutes, constantly moving, and many of them could reasonably be expected to barely be ever leaving their homes otherwise. But the employees are there day in, day out for hours on end, interacting with dozens or hundreds of people. They have presumably been trained to do their jobs a certain way, but they seem content to proceed the "wrong way" down an aisle whether a customer could give them space or not. In Lowe's, I noted that several of them were in their office at computers a few feet from each other, and others were chatting right next to each other.
That will be the way transmission happens, not between two customers who are five feet apart instead of six, for ten minutes, facing away from each other, in the outdoors. But that seems to be the focus.