Just seen a NEWS report on the shops that have reopened

Don't all rush at once!!

I may not be going for some time, Mick, how about you?

I was wondering how the charity shops were going to be safely opened? can’t keep putting stuff away as often no stockroom. What about donations? Leave in a sack for a week?
I think it’s a bit of a minefield, masks and gloves at the ready!
Not for me though I’m staying home.

I’ve just come back from Hobbycraft and Been and Queued. Both places good as I knew what I wanted but as usual for me I always come out with a bit more than I went for at Hc and I did add some houseplants in B&Q.

I have set myself a challenge, not to buy any new clothes or shoes for the remainder of the year. I have far too many of everything anyway, even after a good sort out.
Whether I'll stick to it is another matter. ?Love an on line bargain.

I have heard a rumour that there was an immense queue of cares at the Cheshire Oaks outlet centre because someone lost the key to the gates.

cares cars!

I think it's better to wait for it to calm down a bit after the initial excitement. Apparently a queue formed outside Nottingham Primark two hours before opening.

We probably belong in either one of two groups. We're either champing at the bit and are eager to go shopping or we don't feel any enthusiasm as the longer we've gone without things the more we realise we can go without.

I've been on a recce - retail is back with a bang there were queues outside Nike & Lululemon!

Peter Jones not yet open but the window dressers were at work - I'll be making a visit there but won't join a long queue.

I have been waiting to return something for 2 months- might brave the shops later with mask and gloves.
I heard there were queues outside Selfridges on hour before it was due to open. Good luck to these people.

No thanks, there is nothing I need so desperately, but there again, I have never seen the fun of shopping just for the sake of it anyway.

I will wait til the mad rush dies down before even attempting to go to shops! I get anxious with shops at the best of times!

There are pictures on line of the young, mostly men queuing to get into the Nike Store in Oxford Street, no social distancing looked like a rugby scrum the poor man on the door didn’t stand a chance of monitoring numbers.

Who needs trainers or gym wear that desperately?

I suspect that was just Oxford Street, one photo I saw online looked like the scrum was 50% photographers

I've never liked going into shops (not even for groceries, but I've been having to do that since the lockdown), and can't understand what would make anyone wait for hours in a queue. I can get everything I need online, thanks.

I’ve done more and more online shopping in recent years but even so, I’m mildly surprised at how completely indifferent I am to the idea of ever doing in-person shopping ever again.

Locally in a way to me Bicester Village , distancing rules broken etc , according to reports calls for it to close , until distancing rules change, which could never happen .
Mick

Mentioned on i another thread, out of curiosity I walked into town yesterday. Queues round the block for sports direct......how urgently can you need multi packs of Slazenger socks

Mick - I won't be rushing into any shops, that's for sure. Distancing rules, so many hands touching clothing etc - too risky for me. keep safe everyone

In one image I saw I could clearly see two women - white haired and more than middle aged - coming out of a very crowded store onto a busy street. What were they thinking? How was that a safe environment for them?

I won't be rushing out to the shops, before the lockdown I did like going to my local town in the early morning whilst it was quiet, we have one of the John Lewis that opened their doors yesterday. Their summer sales should be looming, normally I would buy at such a time, although everything is on line. However having seen some of the manic behaviour on the news, I can't understand it really, Nike in Oxford Street in particular, I mean no one dies without new trainers not to mention the queues for McDonalds, it really does say a lot about some people's mentality, definitely an age demographic thing I'd say. Would still rather walk out in the fresh air rather than traipse around shops with artificial lighting, haven't really missed them that much. Having said that, sadly the high street will suffer even more unless those wanting to spend do so.

TerriBull - I confess, John Lewis is my go to store. My family often query how their sales can be dropping, given the level of support I give them. I'll look on line and I will miss meeting a friend at our local JL, wandering the sale lines, trying things on, having a coffee and a cake. Pre lock down bliss but not for the foreseeable

Non-essential says it all. Who needs new clothes - except children who are still growing or those who are munching their way through lockdown?

Saw a young woman clutching a handbags she’s ‘simply had to have’. Says something about our culture and priorities doesn’t it and suspect that applies to the young men mobbing the Nike shop too.

It's no different to other people continuing to buy online, despite having umpteen pairs of shoes, boots, etc.

Online COVID-19?