Starting next week, Australian supermarkets will adopt a new social distance measure to limit the number of in-store customers and queue shopping may become the new normal.
Woolworths and Coles will introduce new restrictions to reduce the number of in-store customers next Monday to strengthen social distance. One of the stores has been reported to have introduced a one-time rule for only eight customers.
Coles stricter measures begin next week, the supermarket will impose restrictions on the number of customers through security personnel.
Starting Monday, if the number of customers is too large or even more than they can maintain a safe distance, supermarkets will "limit the number of customers entering their stores ," says Coles.
He added that this would be implemented jointly by third-party security and specially trained Coles staff.
Woolworths will also introduce a new customer limit on monday, with reports that its stores in the new state Richmond allow only eight people to enter the store at a time. Woolworths says how many customers are allowed to shop in the store will depend on the size of each store.
Customers may be counted at the door and asked to line up in the street before a new group of customers can enter when other customers have finished shopping leave the supermarket. "Customers will find that by the end of Easter, supermarkets will be implementing new social distance measures ," Woolworths said in a statement. depending on the busyness at that time, we may limit the number of people entering the store from time to time. The customer limit for each location will be based on the size of the store. "For the sake of community safety, our store managers will be judged cautiously by common sense. "
