Shop staff, what do you think of masks?

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I work in a supermarket. It's heavy work moving cages, drinks crates, veg ect. I wear a shield at the moment as I find its easier with glasses and I'm very blind without glasses, my prescription id +9 and +9.5. I'm going to really struģgle with masks everywhere. I had a very difficult birth and I have c-ptsd which has got worse with sèeing everyone in masks and anxiety levels are worse than usual.

I took a job in a supermarket, part time as a way of managing my mental health, not much pressure, not too many hours. I'm thinking that the fact that I'll be anxious the whole time, and when I wore the mask I got flashbacks, I'm fucked.

Hiw do other shop workers feel?

I'm worried. I supplement my income with 3 evenings working stock in a supermarket. Before lockdown I tried working in a mask one night and it was horrible. I also wear glasses so have the same.issue with steaming up but also felt really sick and woozy. I've been reading the reports and haven't seen it say explicitly whether staff have to wear them. Would be good if it was just customers

I think we'll have to wait until tonight to see what they announce but it's not clear so far.
Will shops be providing them for staff?
I bought a box a week ago but they've tripled in price.

How would you feel about a visor Louise? That would be preferable to me I think.

I'm glad. I've always wanted masks to be introduced for public transport and shops

Already wear a visor, haven't got a problem with it.

Shop staff here and happy to wear one, I've found that I've got used to wearing one, have worked out how to stop my glasses steaming up by pinching tightly the nose strip and have worked out that I need to take an antihistamine to stop my hay-fever affecting my breathing while wearing one (mild congestion makes it worse).

Other than that, it's fine, and I think it will be much easier for management to persuade customers to wear them if the staff are as well

Flaxmeadow, are you shopstaff and have you worn one? If not fuck off back to the main thread we don't care about your opinion here

Yes I'm shop staff. I've been commented on a few retail threads since March about it. Yes I've worn masks

Why, what's wrong?

Why are you being rude to people with a different attitude to you, OP? NHS workers seem to manage it, suck it up!!!!

I work in a supermarket and I really don't like wearing them I find them uncomfortable especially for 7 hours. If I have to wear one it's tough isn't it but I'd rather not.

Does your shield not count as a face covering?

If I can carry on wearing my vizor, then I'm more than happy. If not, face masks are going to be hot for eight hours a day and worse when a hot flush comes on!, but like everyone else I'll have to get used to it.

I work in a shop, and I'm really glad that people will have to wear masks. In the past, a lot of our customers have been Chinese tourists who often wore masks, so I'm used to serving customers with them, and I find it a sign of politeness and respect.

All staff where I work have to wear face coverings whenever we are in the building unless we are eating, and it's not a big deal.

Female retail workers have higher death rates from Covid-19 than nurses, and several of my colleagues are caring for family members with very serious health problems, so I hate it that so few customers wear masks - it feels incredibly rude and disrespectful, that they don't value the lives of the other people in the building with them.

A friend of mine recently tested positive for Covid-19 with negligible symptoms, which has really brought home to me the importance of covering my nose and mouth even if I feel fine, because I don't know when I might potentially be spreading illness.

Does a visor count as a face covering?

You’ve asked what shop workers think of masks in your thread title and then been really rude to someone who has a different opinion to you.

Does the title need changing perhaps?

I too wonder if your visor will count as a face covering.
I hope it does so you can remain comfortable at work OP.

Where's the "main thread"?

Asking for a friend

Aldi, Lidl, Penny etc - staff wears masks if about in the shop like their customers.
Cashiers all work in an enclosure or behind a shield.

The firms who were trying to sell those contraptions in past years are making a fortune right now!

According to the BBC news the mandatory rule will not apply to retail staff.

According to the BBC news the mandatory rule will not apply to retail staff.

I went to Boots yesterday and none of the staff were wearing masks. I understand it if serving behind a screen but not when on the shop floor in and amongst customers.... which I found even more shocking as it has a pharmacy in it!

I get that many staff won’t particularly want to wear one, but it makes no sense whatsoeverand will inevitably cause issues, firstly with those angry that they are not wearing a mask, and secondly with those who will use it as an excuse not to wear a mask.

It is stifling in our local Boots in the summer. Must have been 33c in there in the last week of June and the staff were no longer wearing face masks when a couple of them were really gung ho about it back in May.

Been saying for weeks that this would happen when it got hot and stifling but nooooooooooo people kept saying that ppl would just have to cope.

The woman in her 60s (WASPI) behind the till was close to collapse. She couldnt take it and had to remove her mask Ditto the other staff member

So what are some of these places going to do to make their workplaces more comfortable to enable mask wearing. Or face dealing with staff members getting heat stroke.

Would a heat stroke death as a result of this go on the Covid figures?

A mask won't give you heat stroke. Ffs.

So what are some of these places going to do to make their workplaces more comfortable to enable mask wearing. Or face dealing with staff members getting heat stroke.

Staff at tills don’t need one as they should have a screen. It’s only those mingling with the public. Shops would need to ensure the staff that did this could cope. Most large stores have air con,
and anyway, it was hardly 33c today!

Besides, most other countries have hotter, often much hotter, summer climates than we do, and they seem to cope.

In the last week of June it was 33c in our local Boots.

Given that this is a pharmacy what about the fact that a lot of medicines must not be stored above certain temperatures.