An Addendum

[jsburbidge]

I noted that no place I had been in had implemented one-way aisles. That is now no longer true; the Loblaws I was shopping in this afternoon had put down arrows in tape on the floors of the aisles. Except... nobody, as far as I could see, was paying them any attention. Or not enough to make the necessary number of people going in the way indicated significantly larger than I would expect at random.

Comments

[graydon]

Shopping habits are deeply ingrained. It'll take some really active effort to change them.

[jsburbidge]

Yeah.

I also see evidence of the same sort of thing that's affecting flour and toilet paper in other areas. (Yes, I've been following the thread over on Charlie's blog. Tempted to jump in regarding limited liability,bbut u gave nothing actually original to say there.) (Suppliers and or deliveries not reflecting the new reality.) When I was there last week the area with yeast and similar baking supplies was almost empty; now it's even more empty, with no new items at all even with the gap in time.

I'm sure the deliveries from that supplier are slotted in N times per month (1 or 2 at a guess). And they can't be easily rejigged for changes in demand. As with flour, I'm sure there's lots of baker's yeast out there, but it's not going through channels which put it into small packets for the consumer market, and I'm sure the supply chains for the packaging are both longer and more complex than those for the yeast itself.

Give it a couple more weeks and we'll see what else is becoming unravelledm