The stores and food outlets, which usually witness a rapprochement between people, are among the most warned places to prevent the transmission of the Corona virus from one person to another, where shoppers are usually spontaneously related during the selection of their purchases, which led many stores in the world to Create strict controls while moving inside the supermarket, starting from the parking area to the exit point at the payment area and back again to the parking lots.
And a group of British and Canadian media have reported over the past few days, details of those controls that have been applied during the past weeks to protect consumers and employees working in these stores, but a resident of the city of Montreal, a Lebanese resident working in the city, spoke to "Emirates Today" about additional action Taken by stores there based on medical and scientific reports on the way the virus is transmitted, he emphasized that arrows were drawn on the ground from the starting point of the shopping trip, to direct shoppers to move within the store's lanes in one direction and look forward without paying attention to the back.
Jaafar Iskandar said that it is required to start in the corridors from one starting point that leads you in a path in one direction, while you must stop at the lines allowed to wait at it, and drawn horizontally parallel in the corridors within 2 meters between each line and another, in order to make sure that there is no other person besides you In the area between the two lines, as it is not allowed to have more than one person in that area. In a simpler sense, the pavilions of the store were divided into squares to prohibit the presence of more than one person per square, while shoppers were allowed to move within them in front steps, as if they were walking in a straight line.
According to Alexander, who works for a Canadian refugee relief organization, the implementation of the forward-looking procedure during shopping was based on scientific reports circulated about the difficulty of transmitting the virus from one person to another from behind in the event of coughing or sneezing, as well as walking in one direction to ensure the regularity of the movement of shoppers. Inside the boxes that determine the safe distance between them.
Among the measures that have been taken at the level of consumer and food outlets in Canada, determine the first hour of stores operating in the morning to shop for the elderly and not allow other age groups to be with them at the same time, for the elderly who can go out, while the Canadian government Delivering food, medicine and daily necessities to elderly people who cannot go out to their place of residence.
Similar measures taken in Canada and Britain, including the presence of employees in the shoppers reception area, make sure that the shopper has completed the sterilization process for his hands and the shopping cart, as well as identifying the distances between shoppers within the corridors of the store and freight corridors, as well as in reducing the allowed number of individuals in the same Time inside the store.
The British stores have determined the number of shoppers allowed to enter the store according to the area of the store, whereby those who manage each store determine the number of people through applying a mathematical equation according to the store space and the number of safe squares inside it.
Department stores in both Britain and Canada recommend shoppers to touch things to be purchased with certainty by thinking carefully before carrying them with hands, in order to reduce the amount of contact with those purchases within the preventive measures applied to preserve as much as possible the cleanliness of the surfaces of objects displayed in various types.