My Saturday Morning Trip to the Supermarket.
Two things: First, the crowd was bigger at 9 AM this week than in the past weeks I've reported on. Still, the market was less crowded than before CV-19 started spreading.
Second, I saw one thing I thought was quite alarming on this trip. While at least 75% of shoppers were masked, I saw one glaring exception. A man in his thirties was shopping with his three children, all under age 10, along for the outing. None of them were masked, and the children, as children do, were fanning out from the area near his cart to fill the full width of the aisles he was in and keeping other shoppers from passing safely. I avoided using those aisles until they were gone.
I'm sure his taking the children on the shopping trip gave his wife a break, but I wouldn't expose children to the risk, nor the people they come in contact with. I think that entire families shopping together is not a good idea right now.
When I checked out he and his brood were ahead of me in the line. They kept their distance and followed the store's floor markings. Fortunately, he was a good bagger and they were gone from the end of the belt by the time I got started bagging my own groceries. The self-bagging area at the end of the checkout lines is the most worrisome area in the store, since it's almost impossible to avoid breaking the 6-foot separation rule. However, the disinfection of the belts between customers allows more time between customers, which helps.
The checkers were keeping up with their disinfection of the incoming and outgoing belts between customers, which is a very good thing.
On this trip, I did notice that all store employees were masked, including shelf stockers, which was not the case on previous trips.
Finally, I noticed, once again, that most shoppers had full carts at the checkout aisle, which seems to indicate fewer shopping trips for many people, and that's a good thing.
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Admittedly, he should have gone grocery shopping before he picked up the kids, but he may not have known what they wanted to eat.
-Laelth
