Where have you actually SEEN signs requiring shoes?

I thought maybe we could get a list going of where people have actually seen posted signs banning bare feet and requiring some type of footwear. Please include the type of store along with the name for those in other areas of the USA or other parts of the world who may not be familiar with the business name. For me, I can only think of a few since I started BF'ing in May 2011:

- Kroger grocery store has signs by each entrance door.
- Home Depot hardware store has signs by each entrance door.
- McDonald's has the familiar NSNSNS signs, but some locations don't have them.
- A local gas station convenience store posted a sign saying shoes and shirt required, which I noticed a few days after going BF in there, but then a couple of months later the sign was gone.

Where have you encountered actual signs? And if you see them, do you still go BF in there?

The first time I noticed the sign at Kroger, I was on my way in BF and just went in anyway. I tried avoiding employees or manager-looking people, and got out without any hassle.

However I saw the sign at Home Depot the other day, and chickened out and went back to the car for my flops. I'm either a wuss or just didn't feel like getting hassled. If someone calls me on it, I do NOT want to go back into the store because then I feel like they have won. But I needed to look at some stuff in that store and didn't feel like having to worry about it. But man, those nice, smooth, dirty concrete floors sure would have been nice to be BF on. :sunny:

 

Strangey enough, the only place I have seen a sign saying 'no bare feet', was at the union shop at my old university!! A university for gods sake!! How stupid, people used to walk around campus barefoot loads in the summer!

I think it just gave the bored shop staff something else to moan about though...

Never seen another one of these signs anywhere in the UK, although to be honest i never really actively look!

 

CVS drugs has an NSNSNS sign. But they moved it to a less prominent spot at the bottom of the door. They never bothered me about it. Did brave a Home Depot but I gotta say the floors were surprisingly clean.

 

haha really? It seems like the polished concrete floors in big-box warehouse stores are almost always dirty. I know my feet are BLACK after being in Lowe's for maybe 10 minutes.

 

My local Asda store in Great Yarmouth Norfolk Uk. (NO BAREFEET IN STORE)

 

Once or twice in UK, usually (and surprisingly) in small seaside shops. I guess those are the only shops where people are regularly likely to be bf, mainly having wandered in from the beach. Did see a sign back in the summer in a small general store in a town I was visiting. They were closed but I couldn't resist leaving them a note of protest!!
The only place I have actually been rejected from remains Tesco (from two different stores).

 

I'm not a barefooter, but I thought I'd add that my work (hotel) has a sign up. It's a franchise, so I'm not sure if all of them do it, but it's a Choice hotel.

 

There are no such signs in my part of the UK {humberside} and i have been bf in Tesco's and Asda with no problems.

 

Still no sign of any such signs here in the Netherlands. Closest I've seen would be the signs on fences around construction sites, requiring boots, helmets and sometimes ear protection as well, like this:

In fact, while searching for this image, I saw these safety shoes signs and also one for the specific type that protect against electric shocks, but an image search for 'Blote voeten verboden' of 'Schoenen verplicht' ('No bare feet' & 'Shoes required') turned up NOT A SINGLE more general Dutch sign, and I went down several pages in the Google results! The same searches in English turn up dozens and dozens of 'general' store & restaurant signs...

 

It seems, that at least in one small town in North-Eastern Germany, somewhere between Prerow and Altefähr (near the Baltic Sea coast), a supermarket manager has put up a self-made sign, stating "Barfuß laufen im Verkaufsraum verboten!" (walking barefoot prohibited in the sales room). A family doing a bicycle tour in summer 2006 took a picture of that sign and put it up on their travel report web site:



That's what my Google picture search for "barfuß laufen verboten" produced as a result - and it was the only result, too. So, there are no pre-fabricated "NSNSNS" signs in Germany whatsoever. And I, personally, haven't encountered any sign as yet.

So, barefoot shopping is no issue in almost all of Germany.

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

Bunnings Warehouse (Hardware shop) in Christchurch, New Zealand.

They don't take it very seriously as I have not ever had a problem being in there barefoot. Last time was yesterday and the girl at the door must have noticed I was barefoot, as all I was wearing was a pair of shorts and she was asking about my cast and crutches and I am standing basically just past the sign barefooted and shirtless. I noticed at least one other guy in there with bare feet as well.

 

Our local Bunnings up here in Auckland is on Ti Rakau Drive in Pakuranga. Been barefoot many times in there, with my kids and bf, never ever had an issue at all. Are you surviving the earthquakes down there?:love:

 

Getting relly sick if them. Nothong big overnight so a decent sleep helps a lot. It least where we are we are a block from the nearest liquefaction so we have got it pretty easy compared with others.

 

Really feel for you. Meant to say we went to Bunnings today just to get some paint gear and saw the dreaded sign, its actually with a list of other 'dont's" so easy to miss....anyway didnt stop us all going in barefoot. Really dont understand the point of it, flip flops dont provide any protection, and Bunnings aren't liable anyway - complete waste of time!:love:

 

only in front of escalators, rarely.
i recall No Bare Chest (or bra's) signs before the doors of major tourist-ridden Cathedrals during summer, but not one requiring footwear.