To go shopping tomorrow?

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Anyone braving the shops tomorrow after lockdown?
Aibu to go on the first day ?
Do you think it's going to be manic

This Morning were filming in Birmingham this morning where they said it was pretty quiet.

Has anyone else been out?

I have only been out into my local one horse town to pick up a prescription. It was busy, in one card shop it said they can only let 12 people in at a time but there were clearly at least double that in there.

Some people were braving an outdoor coffee but it's pouring with rain now.

I’ve been into Leeds. Very small queues outside Primark and Wilko but other than that it was dead.

@BabcockPeggy

I’ve been into Leeds. Very small queues outside Primark and Wilko but other than that it was dead.

My son is in Leeds, he and his uni. friends just seem battered down by the whole thing and the number of cases deaths. I check daily and to be honest it is still pretty grim there, I would not be shopping.

I went to Poole this morning. Arrived just before 9am & it was deserted. I finished in town, drove to PC world, was number 4 in the queue & had finished my shopping by 11am. It felt wonderful to be out.

Went today in a small city. A little busy, but nowhere near as bad as when we came out of the long lockdown

I had some returns to take back today at john lewis, debenhams, and marks , no ques at all, I did go late afternoon 3pm to avoid crowds.

Bun fight, dont forget its payday week

I'd avoid Primark. As they've no online presence people here have been queuing round the block to get in every day for weeks!
Would rather shop elsewhere online from home!

I went today and it was absolutely fine, no problems at all. Even managed to get beautified.

Feeling organised and fabulous.

@nicky7654

Your all be moaning when hundreds of shops have gone bankrupt! This will mean job losses and ghost towns!!! The chances of catching Covid is extremely rare and even if you do there's only a very tiny chance of being really ill ! You have.more chance of being laid up with flu. Support the shops/jobs and stop listening to scare mongery!! This tier 3 is an absolute joke .

That'll be why 50,000 people in the UK have died despite near constant lockdowns and restrictions for the last 9 months, glad that's been cleared up.

I went, and TBH it wasn’t much busier than usual, midweek. And it’s a big shopping centre, the biggest for miles unless you go into central London.

Sounds like most places was pretty dead on the news

Pleased to report my charity shop had a great day, never over crowded and everyone respected social distancing - and we took three times as much money as usual .

I went to my biggish town this morning at 8.30am and shopped for 5 hours (I know!!) this did include an hour at the supermarket tho. No queues til 11ish then only 4 or 5 waiting. It was so good to be out I even winked at the (gorgeous) busker who sings outside M & S!!

Heck no!! the ques will be hell due to the limited numbers allowed in - most people wont bother to keep distance - more time standing around waiting to get in than actually achieving anything.. all to find out they havent got anything you want anyway.

In my opinion not worth the time or effort let alone the risk during a pandemic. Done most of mine online or with local sellers via facebook or etsy. The only thing I'll miss this year is the local Christmas market where the kids and i always stop for a Bratwurst and hot cider (that's my treat!)

@Ragwort

Pleased to report my charity shop had a great day, never over crowded and everyone respected social distancing - and we took three times as much money as usual .

Excellent. I got some lovely bits from our local ones today

I, too, was very cheered up by a trip to the charity shop today.

Then yes, YABU

Went to Primark about 4pm. Multi storey carpark
had was pretty empty. Walked straight in to the shop, no queueing. No issues inside, fairly quiet. Queue to pay looked long but only because of social distancing. There and back in an hour and got loads. Glad I went, it'll only get busier in the run up to Christmas

Angrywife
That's reassuring because I've got to go to the bank and didn't go due to concerns about crowds yesterday.

Well I went shopping yesterday and we didn't have to queue to get into Primark
The entertainer
The Card Factory
Superdrug
Class Ohlson
Poundland
Yours
Mr Sims
Savers
and we managed to get into a cafe for a mid morning pit stop and a drink and we managed to get into a weatherspoons for some lunch with no problems as well.

No idea where the crowds were(but I'm glad there weren't any when we went shopping) and our local town is big and usually very popular.

I think if you want to go out shopping then go but stop going on about it being other people's moral duty to support the high street. There's a reason many shops were failing before covid and the online alternatives employ people too!

I went shopping yesterday and didn't queue anywhere, not even for Debenhams which I was surprised at because, on the radio in the car heading in, was just endless chat about excessive online queues and their website crashing etc.

I went first thing, straight from the school run, it was really quiet, but it definitely busied up by around 11am - but not massively. I was done and heading home by 12:30 but I did Sainsbury's on the way back which was also surprising quiet.

I'm going to continue going out as and when I need to.

I went shopping yesterday- no madness, barely any people. Most staff said it had been quiet.