Safeway purposly blocking emergency exits.

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I bet it has to do with shoplifting. My moms friend was at a bbq of ours. She is a safe way employee and you wouldn't belive the shit she said. Safe way is losing tens of thousands and won't hire fuckin security. It's so bad they call them rabbits. People put lots of meat face down in the cart. I guess this helps with some kind detection of the bar codes as they run out. She told me several stories of having push wars with men stealing carts of food. She's gone as far as the back and side of store to take shit back. I told her she needs to not risk her life for safe way. She gets paid to ring up fuckin groceries.
One of the times she grabs a backpack that this chick was really swinging the shit out of walking in. Talking full loops here lol. On the way out she walks past the registers and is almost dragging the damn thing. She goes over and physically stops the lady. Cops are called. She said the cops refused to do anything and let her go.
Safe way is loosing lots of money and won't spend any for security because theft lose is a write off. Your safety in case of fire is less important than a cart of groceries, that was less important than a 12 dollar per our security guard in the first place.

[Big E3]

Can you say "Coconut Grove Fire"? That's the reason all exit doors are now supposed to open outward. Every time I encounter a door of a public business that opens inward, it drives me crazy. In an emergency everybody runs to the doors and if they don't open or open inward your stuck with bodies forced against you and nonfunctioning doors. Fire marshals are usually very concerned with exit issues. Those doors with alarms must open when tripped. The alarm is just notification that they are open. Why do they block exit doors in Highlands Ranch? Is that the new Montebello?

You won't have to shop at Safeway much longer, every since Albertson's bought them they keep closing stores. With Albertson's killing their competition, I bet King's (Kroger) feels like they hit the lottery.

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Next time it gets long winded I'll use paragraphs.

[Martinjmpr]

I feel like I've seen several stores do this over the years.

Yup, the KS in Englewood on Broadway and Floyd does the same thing. At 7pm the "second" door is locked and usually blocked with grocery carts. It doesn't even have emergency push bars AFAIK because it's a sliding door, not a hinged door.

Funny thing is, that KS does have a security guard.

I had never thought about the fire exit implications until now but it does seem wrong to deliberately block a potential fire exit. I wonder if the number of fire exits required is linked to the number of people they have in the store and they can get away with this by saying "after 7pm we don't have more than XX people in the store so we only need one exit?"

[68Charger]

Yup, the KS in Englewood on Broadway and Floyd does the same thing. At 7pm the "second" door is locked and usually blocked with grocery carts. It doesn't even have emergency push bars AFAIK because it's a sliding door, not a hinged door.

Keep in mind that commercial automatic sliding doors WILL open if you push hard enough on them when closed...(look for the hinges on the side, they're just latched to the track normally) they are also an emergency exit.

This is also done so you're not trapped in a power outage.

[Wulf202]

Nope. Because the signs are still directing traffic to the now blocked exits. This is a major no no

[KS63]

From the OP's first post, it sounds as if Johnny acquired an attitude problem. Definetly against Fire code and the general manager should be notified of the infraction and Johnny's shitty attitude.

[Monky]

WAAAAAAYYYY back in HS when I worked at the local grocery store, which was a 24 hour joint.. we would block one entrance off at night. The reason being so we could see who was coming 'in and out'. The store is less populated at night and a far greater target.. I had a few of the night shifts and the amount of cash at night was steady.. they'd do a drop every few hours of so, and it was an adventure. This was long ago though before debit cards were popular. So it was all cash and check.

[rondog]

You know, come to think of it, the Wal-Mart in Parker closes off the western set of entrance doors after a certain time, and blocks them with carts too.

[blacklabel]

You know, come to think of it, the Wal-Mart in Parker closes off the western set of entrance doors after a certain time, and blocks them with carts too.

Both of the Wal-Marts in Greeley do this but I haven't noticed any carts blocking the entrances.