Supermarkets have come up with a number of handy ways to slash queue times outside stores during coronavirus lockdown.
Shoppers have been forced to wait in lengthy lines during the pandemic while only a certain number of people are allowed to shop at one time in order to follow social distancing measures.
Now Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Aldi have each introduced different systems to help reduce the time customers have to queue, the Daily Star reports.
The new systems are designed to help customers do their weekly shop as quickly as possible.
Tesco
Tesco customers may be asked to wait inside their cars in order to avoid standing in long lines.
On Tesco’s website, it says: “If it’s raining or particularly cold, we may ask you to stay in your car to queue – we’ll let you know when you can come in.”
This is one of the ways customers can avoid standing in a queue - especially in bad weather.
Aldi
Aldi has installed traffic lights at its entrances which flash green when a store has a safe number of people inside.
The lights will turn red when stores are full and people will be asked to queue.
The traffic light system is being rolled out across all 874 UK stores this week.
Morrisons
Morrisons has realised that not everyone has to do a huge weekly shop.
The supermarket has decided to let in three people using baskets for every person using a trolley.
That means those who only need a few bits can get in and out faster.
Asda
Asda is trialling a “virtual queueing” system as part of its investment in longer-term social distancing measures.
This system will allow customers to log in to the queue remotely, ad wait in their cars to enter stores.
So far it is being trialled in its store in Middleton, near Leeds, and could be rolled out in Scotland at a later date.
