CHAT Changes at Walmart today

[Walrus Whisperer]

I noticed my Safeway ripped off the directional arrows, only had spacing lines at checkouts. City Market just had big ads on floor at each aisle. Haven't been to Wally's for a while.

 

[raven]

Walked against the arrows too.

Lady told me to follow the arrows on the floor.

I told her in a loud voice.

I can't read lady!!!
It overloaded her processing, I walked off.

We were in the WalMart couple weeks ago. Sweetie takes off down this aisle going the wrong way. I stood there at the end and watched her walk all the way to the other end of the aisle and then turn the corner to come back the next aisle. So, I took a couple steps to the next aisle and watched her come back.
She was a little exasperated and says "You don;t have to follow the arrows on the floor"
And I says "Had nothing to do with the arrows, It was the canned vegetables aisle - you don;t eat vegetables - I do not like hiking extra miles up and down aisles we don't need nothing from."

(For some people, going to "the store" is like a new advenure every time they go - Like they are Lewis and Clark or Columbus discovering America.)

 

[Mr.Smith]

who ever came up with the idea of putting those arrows down did not think it thru..
think about this, if you and another person are walking in oppisit directions in an isle and you pass each other it is for what a second or so right?.
now think about every one going the same way in an isle and there are 5 persons in that isle and one stops and every one passes them and that takes about 2 seconds also..
so you end up with in 6 feet of each other anyway when passing them wether you go against the arrows or with them..
so who are they tring to kid with the arrows that do no good what so ever?.

Same with forcing everyone through one entrance. Presumably every person in the store is forced to breathe the same air by being corralled through the same corridor coming or going.
Social distancing my ass.

 

[20Gauge]

Those "lockdown laws" can't be enforced because they are not legislated laws. They are laws issued from the mouths of democrat governors. Americans have been so dumbed down the past 2 or 3 generations that they believe anything anyone in a position of authority tells them. Those "laws" are going to backfire big time once one Constitutional lawsuit goes to court to contest the legality of 9-month lockdown laws.

I agree with the legality of the laws. As people are conditioned to believe once "martial law" or "a medical emergency" is declared, you are no longer a citizen, but a tool to be used by the government to do what ever they feel like doing. Too many movies have shown that and people now believe it to be fact.

The problem is I do believe "perception is reality" in that if enough people believe this, then it is in fact true. Is it right? No way. Is it legal? No way, yet!

Then there is what do you do when a squad of police / FBI / Homeland security guys line up on you to enforce some illegal act? So history has shown us, you go down. You may win later in court, but you go down and they do and take what they want.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Those "lockdown laws" can't be enforced because they are not legislated laws. They are laws issued from the mouths of democrat governors. Americans have been so dumbed down the past 2 or 3 generations that they believe anything anyone in a position of authority tells them. Those "laws" are going to backfire big time once one Constitutional lawsuit goes to court to contest the legality of 9-month lockdown laws.

The governors are using emergency powers under quarantine law. They're said to be part of the police powers and it's going to take the Supreme Court to bust that out.

 

[FireDance]

Been along time so..................I think FDR ran a campaign against Hoover claiming he was a profligate spender and what was needed was frugality in gov. He got in to find the system collapsing around him. So as he was claimed to have said; We will keep trying until we find something that works. Most things he tried, didn't work.

My Gramp said the only thing that did work was the Rural Electrification Assoc. Oddly enough, today we need a Rural Broadband Assoc.l but for some reason, they can't get that off the ground.

But FDR did prove one thing. As long as the gov looks like it is trying to do something to ameliorate the problem, the citizens will support it. Even if the effort is a failure.

My father's archives 1924-33 have a half dozen pieces of paper. Starting in 1933, gobs of stuff on farming, what to farm, how much you could grow etc. In 1939, no better off than 1933 but they all voted Democrat in 1940 when a bunch had gone for Hoover in 1932.

My grandmother would have spit on FDR. She despised him. I didn’t know why until much later. All I remember was how venomous her words were. Which was totally unlike her.

 

[Lone_Hawk]

Just got back from the Walmart in Erwin, NC. Fencing at the entrances are gone, all the arrows and one way only signs are gone. They were there last Sunday afternoon.

 

[blackguard]

So with this post in mind I made the trek to my local WM this morning since I needed to stock up on some things and right away noticed a number of changes. First, both doors were open, next the barriers around the doors were gone. Hmmmm, says I. Still had an associate just inside distributing masks to the ones who needed them. Stock levels, as I had some time today (unusual for me lately) I went down all the grocery aisles and the levels were at about 90% of what you would call normal ( I used to work at this particular WM) in the food areas. Paper goods were at about half, cleaning supplies were decently stocked including wipes and spray cleaners. Overall the store was well stocked. I'm about an hour west of OKC

 

[rafter]

Arrows gone.... now I won’t have to back down the aisle when I don’t want to go around to go down it “correctly “