PSA: Keep your cart behind you in line to maintain distance at checkout. It also helps out

[brewens]

in the isles.

[mcar]

1. Then you are right next to the person in front of you in line

Unless they, also, keep their cart behind them.

[bluewater]

2. You control how close you choose to stand behind someone in a line.

But you can't control someone crowding close up behind you.

I think that's the implication.

[hlthe2b]

5. Yup... During the worst of the "backlash" from the public, I took to carrying a telescoping walking

stick--the aluminum fitness type (which typically remained collapsed). However, if someone did crowd behind me, I could extend it and "help" the person behind me to recognize the correct distance to remain from me. I only have had to do it twice--they got the message that the stick was not just there for show and tell or for my balance...Of course, I never touched anyone with it, nor would I unless accosted.

My community has been more respectful than some others, but there is always a "lout" in every crowd, it seems.

[mcar]

7. Ah, I see

[tblue37]

3. But you control the distance in front of you, not the distance behind you.

[brewens]

4. Nope. You keep your space behind. No one can force you to move up. At least where I shop,

they still have that marked out on the floor.

[Hortensis]

6. I had to do that once since a glance and an "excuse-me" didn't work

and their faces (fully viewable, of course) said being more explicit wasn't going to either. Since there was someone ahead in line at the next mark, I started by step-pivoting to swing it sideways between us. Surprise!