Which supermarkets has the most mask wearing?

Bluebel

Maddyone,the personel attack seems to be anyone who dares to shop in the likes of Asda,Tesco etc.

It is not an attack, and certainly not personal since I addressed no one at all on Gransnet. I knew some wouldn’t like the truth, but there it is.

MissAdventure

I wear a mask while ordering an online shop, I'm that responsibly minded.

Thanks, that made me smile MissAdventure.

Tescos near us - about 30%
Aldi around 20%
Asda - negligible

Our local Waitrose has kept the staff screens and quite a few customers wear masks which I think is good - the virus is increasing in this part of Somerset and a friend who had it a couple of weeks ago has a bad legacy of long Covid - headache, fog, etc. Johnson has been cavalier in ditching the restrictions in my opinion.

I'd say in my area 90+percent don't wear them at all (northern city). However I'm wearing mine. Wasn't there a lot less colds and flu during the pandemic!?!? Remember the old saying coughs and sneezes spread diseases? I like my mask lol

I had to pop into Sainsburys and Marks today and hardly anyone had a mask on. I am vulnerable, so still wear one, and felt a bit conspicuous! I do think age of customers ( and therefore vulnerability) is the main difference between stores. My nearest Asda ( next town) is near university and college ( lots of young adults shopping) and near large housing estates (adults shopping for families) Sainsburys and Marks and Spencer’s on the other hand are at an out of town sight ( together) and attracts mostly people who shop by car, as well as from our village, so may have a wider range of customer demographics.
On trains ( commuter) despite the crowding, rather less than half wear masks. Men ( young and middling) and younger women mostly don’t. Older commuters like myself usually do.
Mask wearing in English shops are no longer mandatory, but still advised.

In Scotland it is still the law for masks to be worn indoors in shops, restaurants etc. and on public transport. I’m in Glasgow and almost everyone in the places I visit wears a mask.

I was shocked when visiting another town to find mask wearers in the minority. On telling this to a friend she said that she felt it was linked to education levels and she had found remarkably different compliance levels in different parts of my city.

Surely it depends on which supermarkets are in your area, how big a population and level of virus is in your area and who is shopping when you are! I would presume, maybe wrongly, that the older you are the more you are likely to wear masks.

I was in a day unit in a major hospital and there were plenty notices faces must be covered. In the crowded waiting area during my 5 hour wait the people who did not mask were one very frail looking old woman in a wheel chair with an attendant, a young man, a middle aged man, and a very pretty dark complexioned young woman wearing a sun top and a mobile phone.

Hardly anybody seems to be wearing a mask anymore here. In the shopping centre this morning there were about twenty people wearing masks. In Sainsbury we only saw two other people in masks. In the local Co-op it's about the same. We've noticed that people are starting to stare a bit now when they see masks, whereas no one seemed bothered before. It seems to be mainly older people still masking up near us, and they are masking up properly - I think the 'under-the-chin', 'under-the-nose' wearers have just dumped their masks.

I’m so unobservant I had to ask DH how many people were wearing masks when we went to buy our Easter eggs in Tesco today (£1 off the £3 ones, ends soon…). One family group apparently, and none of the staff.

We’re off to Sainsburys tomorrow so I’ll pay attention and see how they compare.

We’re a Waitrose-less area with no Asda either, so I’m not sure what that says about our social standing, as determined by Gransnet.

Did a quick shop this afternoon at our local Co-op 2 masks spotted one member of staff one customer they are definitely disappearing

All age related imo. Waitrose et al tend to have the more mature shopper who won’t let go of wearing a mask whether they need to it not. Aldi et al, younger shoppers, families etc, well and truly over the mask wearing joke.

Really!!

What a load of old rollocks.

Wherever you go, there will be mask wearers and non mask wearers.

Personally, I don’t go in them and still prefer click and collect.

Very high mask compliance amongst customers and staff of all ages in the large Waitrose where I work. Many customers comment on it. It's by no means an 'old people's' store.

I would say that mask wearers are in the minority now in most supermarkets. However, yesterday (Saturday) I called into the Trafford Centre with my daughter to collect an order and felt decidedly uncomfortable, as it was very busy and the shoppers were almost exclusively under 35. I was glad to get out. (I’m not keen on the Trafford Centre anyway - it’s full of things I don’t want or need!?)
It’s interesting that Covid has taken a back seat on the news now.

I think it as much depends on the area as the shop. And the time of day. As a general, older people tend to wear them, younger not so much. When it was advisory I had a rant at the staff in Pets at Home because they had put a big sign outside asking customers to please wear face masks, but the staff were not wearing them. When I questioned them they said ‘It’s my choice’. I pointed out that could hardly request customers to wear then then if they weren’t.

I work in a theatre, no one wears a mask anymore in the auditorium. Second Boosters are rolling out now, Covid is so prevalent that it’s unlikely to pass any one by although many people I know, including myself haven’t had it….yet! I think many people are more relaxed about it now, it’s not a death scenario any more but I do believe that long Covid is a serious consideration. I wear double masks in my job for this very reason.

Where I live we have a Sainsbury’s, Asda, Lidl and a Waitrose. The Waitrose is near perfect mask wearing (I was there yesterday and the age range was a wide age range, not just OAPs) Sainsbury’s is pretty much 60 % wearing mask 40% not wearing one, and Asda and Lidl is almost no mask wearing. For that reason I avoid the latter two as I’m looking after my mil in her 90’s and she’s very vulnerable so I don’t want to pass it onto her.
Make of the above what you will. ??‍♀️

Covid is so prevalent that it’s unlikely to pass any one by although many people I know, including myself haven’t had it

That's a bit of contradiction! I know very few people who have had it - DDil and both DGC, but DS didn't get it and I know no on else who has had it.

Just because a poster knows of few, or even no people who have suffered Covid tells us nothing because we know it is very prevalent now and rising. I saw one in every twenty people had Covid last week. Between 100-200 people are dying every day day with Covid and hospital admissions are up to 1,900 a day across the country.
Covid has not gone away, whatever we like to think.

So how many people who are intelligent, middle or upper class are wearing the N type masks in these supermarkets? As they are the only ones effective against viruses. The disposable ones and cloth ones have little or no effect

Well, I'll report back next time I go into a shop I never shop in because I'm not educated enough, shall I?

It is interesting to find correlations between a social class and a public behaviour. I bet social psychologists have paid attention to correlations between posh shops and a specific behaviour , and negative correlation between downmarket shops and the same specific behaviour.

Since covid is front page news, it would be odd if there were no studieds of covid related behaviour. As a matter of fact I myself am a guinea pig for a DOI study on covid related behaviour and actual infection, although specific supermarkets have not so far been mentioned.

I went to sainsbury's today and wore a mask and I'd say 95% of people/staff were wearing them
I then popped into the farm shop and hardly anyone had them on at all

I didn't wear a mask in the co-op yesterday as I had forgotten to take one