Oxford Street shops - crowds without distancing

[VenusOfWillendorf]

I've just been watching the BBC news over my lunch, and they were reporting on the shops reopening. The first shopping center they were at looked good - queue to get in but well distanced and marked out and everyone looking happy to be out and about again.

Then they went to NikeTown on Oxford street - it looked more like the opening of the Black Friday Sales! There looked to be no distancing at all - just a crowd literally pushing and shoving to get in the door.

I don't understand why the shop opened at all with a crowd like that - surely they should have remained closed and had their security (who looked to be overwhelmed) tell everyone to go home? Or does the fact that there seemed to be no distancing with the demonstrations at the weekend make the whole thing meaningless anyway?

Should shops that are unable to enforce social distancing either inside or outside be allowed to open?
YABU - They should be open, they all need the income now

YANBU - They should close if they can't maintain the rules.

@HappydaysArehere

Unbelievable scenes. If we have another peak it’s down to those of little brain ruining all the efforts and hardships endured by others in the past weeks. It’s like give them an inch and they take a mile. No thought for themselves or others so long as they get something they are unlikely to really need from Primark. Madness personified.

Please correct me if I missed something but every image I saw yesterday of Primark stores showed polite, careful queuing. The only unrest I’m aware of was at Niketown.

There was an enormous but equally polite and careful queue at John Lewis Kingston, too. Are those people ‘madness personified’ too?

These threads really do being the worst of the Mumsnet "im so much better than you" people out from under their rocks. "there'll be a second wave, you Mark my words" "it'll be their fault for going shopping" "i hope they suffer" "im right you're wrong". Just shut up. Some people are content to hide away in fear and others want to get back to normal. We all have to get back out there sooner or later and we've had 14 weeks of this shit.

So much class hatred from those who would never be seen dead in Primark (most of Mumsnet) towards those who have no choice to buy Boden and jojo maman bebe to clothe their kids because Primark is what they can afford. "Those of little brain" clearly you feel you're so much better than them.

Och mumsnet has a collective lack of imagination that makes me laugh.
A million women who can’t even fathom what makes other people tick 😂😂😂

@NowImLivinInExeter I shouldn’t laugh but 😂😂😂😂 you’re absolutely right. As others have said it’s all well and good shopping online but for a lot of people it’s the experience, actually getting out of the house and being able to do something again

Feellikeanalien
Exactly
It's disappointing really.

@ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal

So much class hatred from those who would never be seen dead in Primark (most of Mumsnet) towards those who have no choice to buy Boden and jojo maman bebe to clothe their kids because Primark is what they can afford. "Those of little brain" clearly you feel you're so much better than them.

These people are heroes helping to save the economy from collapse.

If nobody supports businesses we'll have no NHS.

Please correct me if I missed something but every image I saw yesterday of Primark stores showed polite, careful queuing

Thats what I saw, I've two adult children who really like primark. 18 year old dd Can’t wait for a visit (though will probably wait til she can go with friends...if that ever happens)

@DisobedientHamster

Yes, because I don't understand it at all. Not to say that it's wrong.

Why d'you ask?

Oh, sorry, you were just being passive aggressive, I see.

I've seen photos from Bicester village yesterday, very worrying

Young people are more impressionable fashion wise and feel they can't live without the latest style of trainers.

I hope that going to the shops in a large crowd doesn't mean that getting the trainers will kill them.

@ginghamtablecloths

Young people are more impressionable fashion wise and feel they can't live without the latest style of trainers. I hope that going to the shops in a large crowd doesn't mean that getting the trainers will kill them.

Adults couldn't do without the latest bog roll.

"I think it's the SM influence. Some people think they need to look amazing on Instagram every day. They will be desperate for new stuff to "impress" their followers."
We need a decent education system in this country so that children grow up with proper values and don't follow manipulators 'influencers'. Stop being sheeple people.