Who's going shopping on Monday?

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The shops are all opening - yippeeeee! I have the day off. I am so damn bored that part of me is thinking about going to our local Designer Outlet just for something to do. I think it's either going to be completely horrendous or completely dead.

Is anyone planning on doing some gratuitous shopping on Monday? Am I completely mad for even considering it??

It won't be a nice experience if you do go. The queues will be enormous, look at what's happened when Ikea and all the coffee shops and fast food places have reopened. Queuing for hours, gridlocked roads, police having to direct traffic etc.

You'd be insane to want to be a part of that just for something to do. Maybe give it a few days and go a couple of hours before closing time, it's likely to be far more 'normal' if you do that.

Nope

Not a chance!

Ikea is different, it takes ages to get round there in the best of times.
Going into M&S and wandering for ages when you only want pants and a fruit salad isn't on.

Not all the shops are re opening. Companies are being cautious and opening a few sites at a time. Limited numbers of customers allowed in at any one time and limits on trying on, if allowed at all!
I doubt you'll be able to wander and browse easily even if all the stores in your local retail park/town are open.

I'm meeting my friend for a takeout coffee and cake and we are going to Superdrug and maybe next.
We are looking forward to a bit of normality and I fear if people don't start using businesses when they open then the job losses will be astronomical.

I've made an appointment at Clark's for both DC to have their feet measured. DH is taking them though as he works the afternoon that day and I work the morning.

I'd love to go and browse in Waterstone's and then sit down with a coffee in one of the nicer cafes but as that isn't a possibility I think it will just be a bit of a sad experience.

No, 1 I will be sleeping, working Sunday night.

2 I hardly go into town or anywhere else.

1. Not got the money lol

I work in a small local clothes shop. I return on Monday. Dreading loads of people turning up for a mooch. I will be on my own. Will have to enforce limited numbers in shop, use hand gel before coming in, don't touch anything unless you intend to buy, no changing rooms, anything touched or shoes tried on to be put into quarantine for 72 hours, same with returns, disinfect constantly and thoroughly at end of the day.

Moochers are the last thing I want.
Sorry to be so negative, but we're all really nervous. Please don't all rush out in the first few days. Give us time to sort ourselves out.

No. You can't try anything on and you'll not be able to touch much.

The government guidelines say for shops to limit how many customers come in, close changing room where possible, limit the amount of items a customer can touch when browsing and, if you can have a one way system (like the supermarkets) - do so.

It's not going to be a relaxing stroll around the shops - a lot of our little shops are putting one way stickers on the floors as I went past this morning.

I’ll need to go in to do a food shop so I’ll see how the queues look and might pop in. M&S is functioning like normal in my town - has been for a few days now - and is fairly quiet.

I haven't been going to the shops, but am so bored I have been driving past to check out the queues. I thought the quues when the DIY shops opened a couple of weeks ago were to do with pent up demand and would decrease but they haven't. There are also still long queues to get into the supermarkets, so i am wondering if queueing to get into a shop will be here for a long time to come... what do others think?

No way. I can imagine the queue for our local Primark will take up 3/4 of the shopping centre.

at a pair of pants and a fruit salad

Depends what time you go to the shops as to whether there are queues. I timed a visit to asda really well yesterday- no wait at all.

limit the amount of items a customer can touch

How will anyone know exactly how many items someone is touching though, unless they follow you around, especially in a big store?

I am sorry to say but things won't be back to normal. Even though the shops are open shopping won't be the same as we are used to. There will be a lot of new rules brought in. Browsing will not be allowed and would you really want to stand in a queue just to only be allowed to look. No touching and no trying things on.

I really need new trainers, I bought a pair online but they didn't fit well, my feet are hard to fit so I want to try them on. So if I can get somewhere that stocks the brand I want, I will go asap, not necessarily Monday though.

If we don’t browse, we won’t buy. I don’t know anyone who goes into a clothes shop, grabs an item to wear, pays and leaves. 😳 Also, our lovely, independent gift shop is opening. It’s the sort of place you go into to buy a gift and something catches your eye. These businesses need our custom or they’ll go under and then all there’ll be is Amazon Prime and a load of depressed looking high streets. This virus isn’t dripping from every surface and oozing from every pore.

Not me...there will be no browsing, or trying on clothes and lots of stores ( including Primark) will be staying shut for now.

Okay, well if nobody goes to the shops, the shops will close and the workers made redundant. There will be no more furlough money soon.

I will because I want to support or local businesses who are on their knees.

I wouldn’t go on the first day, no. It will be chaos and I don’t want to contribute to the numbers. Ikea had record sales numbers when they reopened, on par with their peak season performance. There’s nothing to suggest other high street shops or shopping centres won’t be the same. I’m expecting Black Friday/Boxing Day footfall or worse

I’ll just wait. Clothes shopping isn’t as fun without trying things on, I’d rather just get clothes delivered with a courier collection of anything needs to be returned.

I think for the immediate weeks ahead, leisurely shopping will be frowned upon, you’re expected to have something in mind as you enter.

No changing rooms open to try anything on.

Not allowed to have a casual relaxed browse around the store. Also will fee obliged to hurry up due to people still awaiting in the queue to get inside the store themselves.

Queuing to get inside stores before hand.

Public toilets closed.

For all these reasons above, i have no urge to go shopping when the shops open.

No, I'm going to work, just like I have every other Monday this year