Asda has told customers not to touch any items unless they plan on buying them to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Updated guidance on the supermarket website urges: ‘TOUCH LESS. Pick up only what you intend to buy.’

It came alongside advice to shoppers to stay two metres away from cashiers and pharmacy counters, pay using card or a mobile app to avoid using cash, and to stick to one adult per trolley.

The supermarket said: ‘If you need to visit our stores, you will see colleagues at the doors to maintain safe customer numbers to help with social distancing. There will also be clear signage, directional barriers and floor markings to help you move around our store easily and maintain a 2-metre distance from other customers and our colleagues.

‘You are allowed to bring your children and other members of your household to our stores, but we ask that you keep this to a minimum to help us maintain social distancing advice.

‘We’re asking customers to only touch items they intend to purchase and to use cashless payment wherever they can to minimise contact.

‘There will be regular announcements on Asda radio to remind customers of their responsibility to apply social distancing rules, and to help you do this we are closing every other self-checkout till. We are also in the process of installing Perspex screens at our checkouts, pharmacies and service desks to help minimise contact and keep social distancing in place.’

Meanwhile, the Liverpool Echo reported that signs were seen in Aldi urging people to only touch trolleys which were at the front of the store and had been sanitised.

An Aldi spokeswoman said: ‘Sanitisation stations are in place at the front of stores so it is easy for customers to disinfect their hands, trolleys and baskets before doing their shop. Our store colleagues may ask that customers only touch trolleys they intend to use.’

All supermarkets have implemented new policies to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

For instance, couples are banned from shopping at Sainsbury’s as well as the one adult per trolley rule at Asda.

Many shops are also offering special time periods for the elderly and NHS workers to shop.

Asda is prioritising NHS workers and care workers in their larger stores every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8am to 9am.

Source:
courtesy of E!ONLINE

by Jen Mills

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