Very soon shopworkers are very likely to be amongst the few people speaking face to face with the public, healthy and infected. Until the Perspex screens are in place in supermarkets anyhow.
We serve someone with the virus today but we don't feel ill for a few days or maybe never if we are just spreaders. Tomorrow we serve your brother or sister, best friend or your lovely mum and dad who won't stop coming into the store for their daily newspaper.
We are trying to distance everyone, I clean my till area frequently, I clean my pin pad every time someone enters their pin. I wash my hands thoroughly and use hand sanitizer.
All I am asking is that customers
Use the supermarket guidelines or stay 2 metres away from people.
Come in as few times as possible (for your sake as much as mine) I may have served someone an hour ago who infected me and I could be infecting you. I really, really hope not. Plan your meals and buy what you need for a few days or preferably a week, add your treats, wine, chocolate and magazines to this shop.
Use bank cards to pay, or if you only have cash go through the self scan tills. Scan your own loyalty card.
Come on your own, leave your partner in the car outside, or definitely at home with the kids. They are just more people infecting or being infected.
Teach your teenagers not to use the supermarket as a boredom buster.
Either coming in for chocolate, chewing gum or bottles of water or even hanging around outside in a group. Even if using a self scan the supervisor can be involved (and in close contact) with your child if the till is temperamental.
Stores are now recovering, and food is getting back onto the shelves.
The stores look better everyday and a weekly/ twice weekly shop in one supermarket will soon be normal again.
Together we can narrow this area of vulnerability.