Expect this change to grocery alleys
In order to keep everyone safe and healthy, this area can soon get a relooking.
Shopping at the grocery store during pandemic coronavirus can be a stressful business. And although there are ways to protect you while shopping, changes to the purchases experience arrive. One, in particular, will make the production section completely different in the future:Prepackaged products.
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Although theThe FDA says There is no evidence that the virus can live on food, the founder ofSupermarketguru.com And an expert in 3-year grocery store, Phil Lempert, says you will not be able to squeeze lawyers or apples, hit you on cantaloups and watermelon, or pick up potatoes or tomatoes to inspect them again. Perhaps you have seen this happen in front of the pandemic, but in the future, you should expect fresh products more packaged than producing in the opening where it can be touched by anyone. This could help keep clients and employees safely.
"I think the whole store will be reimagined," said LempertChicago Sun-Times in an interview. "People would like to go to the shops and see their friends. Many of that is over."
Its predictions also include fewer products on shelves and more "Click-and-Collect" orders where customers choose pre-packaged items online before shopping in person. They then enter the store to select fresh products, meat, fish, bread and more and more, while robots in the back prepare the order.
Other security changes that could come to make space inside safer grocery stores becauseInterior areas, wealth and poorly ventilated are known to allow the virus to spread more easily. Some of them includePlexiglas and antimicrobial conveying belts at cash stations, more check-out stations,wider alleyshand disinfecting stations and possibly more production products orsalad bars.
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