What will happen to supermarket queues when it starts raining?

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I know lockdown had been a different experience for different people but the sunshine must have made it a bit more bearable for everyone. Apparently it's going to be wet now for quite a few days.

What impact will that have on the queues? Yes, I know there's nothing to stop people queuing in the rain but will they? Will the usual quiet/busy times apply or will everyone shop in the dry spells?

How desperate would you need to be to queue for, say 40 min, in the rain?

Will good humour be maintained or might this be the tipping point?

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I'll wear a coat. That said my local Lidl is on the first floor and the ground is a covered car park which is where we have been queueing

I doubt we'll be seeing civil unrest. Social media has been very effective in ensuring that the only rioting we do takes place in our armchairs.

Coat and brolly, dh goes usually, so coat with hood.
We won't melt.

Lol I go to sainsbury's on a friday. This week a jumpsuit/cardie, last week big coat with hood up as pouring, week before shorts and tshirt....

It will be like queuing for anything outside when it's raining. I don't think the supermarkets should worry about it, it's down to the customers to dress for the weather and have an umbrella.

I also think it will cut down on people going to the shops for something to do rather than because they are going to run out of food.

That said, I read somewhere over the last day or two of a supermarket making you queue in your car if it rains and then going in. But annoyingly I don't know where I read it. And that's all very well if you have a car...

It's hot dry weather that brings on the rioting.

Not much rain in the UK??? Have we forgotten the widespread flooding in many UK regions barely two months ago? (And a previous round in November, and the perilous resevoir last summer) We finally stopped wading in mud after 9 months of rain most days!

Anyway. I shall have to remember a jacket or brolly.

What an odd question....what do you think people will do in the rain? Stand in the queue as usual of course, albeit with a coat and brolly.

Such strange attitudes to a bit of water, no-one will melt in the rain, it's really perfectly OK.

I've not had to queue for more than 10 mins so far. Just put a coat on.

What will happen to supermarket queues when it starts raining?

The supermarket will spontaineously combust into flames and rain fire onto the unsuspecting people waiting in line to meander down the non-essential aisles for compost and the baking aisle in desparate hope of a packet of strong white bread flour.

Alternatively, people will have to suck it up and get wet or have to learn to wear coats and use umbrellas; a foreign concept in the UK it seems.

Do I think it will be a tipping point? A tipping point in what exactly? Dickheads displaying their skills as impatient, coat dodging, selfish, inconsiderate muppets?

Na we already know who those people are.

Yes I have lived in Cumbria 🤷🏽‍♀️ Love rain. I now live in the north of England, there’s only been a small amount over night this last month. I stand by my statement that it barely rains (in comparison to some areas). You can bring up the flooding, but then ought to bring up the droughts we’ve had as well.

No such thing as bad weather and all that.

I haven’t yet queued to get into a supermarket... the joys of living in the sticks!

The tipping point for civil unrest and mass disobedience, which I think is becoming more imminent every day

Nope.

People riot is if they have no food and/or can't get food.

If they are standing in queue for Tesco, they can get food but they'll just get wet doing it.

The threat of riots was earlier on when there was no food on the shelves - and we passed that problem or in the future lies with the people who can't afford food in the coming weeks - we've yet to clear that hurdle.

I'll take an umbrella and hope that there are less people waiting.

In the words of my good old granny “Your aren’t made of sugar you won’t melt love”

Rain won’t hurt you or kill you. Being wet isn’t nice but your only be in the queue if you actually need food so people will be British and suck it up

We’re British we keep calm and carry on will take a bit more than rain to break us in to civil unrest etc

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there’s only been a small amount over night this last month.

That's true, but it's atypical. People are used to rain in this country.

For people who don't drive, rain happens.
I generally find a brolly helps.

We'll stand in the rain with umbrellas and moan. We've been practising for this for decades.

Waitrose have ordered 3500 umbrellas for the queues in the rain. But seriously, is it beyond the intelligence of people to think ooh it's raining let's take a brolly / raincoat???

This has just prompted me to look up average rainfall for the UK. Apparently it's 133 days per year for the whole of the UK. But it's more like 183 where I live, so actually I'm not imagine it when I think that it's wet just as often as it's dry. Although honestly, if I'd had to guess I'd have thought that we probably got about 280 days of rain a year, it certainly feels like it!

It's ok, cold wet weather tends to put off rioters. Especially when they can't even all get worked up in the pubs. There'll just be lots of grumbling on social media

We'll all melt and die.

I could see an argument for a ticket system at the entrance so people can wait in a car or under shelter. The vast majority of us can just bring waterproofs and get back in our warm cars afterwards. But if it's heavy rain it's crap for anyone that has to go to work afterwards, or anyone with a longer walk, waiting for a bus etc.

Can't wait for the rain this week - my allotment desperately needs some.

OP, British people queue in the rain. It's pretty much the national stereotype. Bless you for thinking it might be some sort of tipping point that will launch mass rebellion. Schools being closed for months on end, losing your job, losing your business - yeah. Getting a bit damper 25 minutes every two weeks whilst getting in necessary groceries? Not so much.