Went shopping this morning, arrived at Tesco's just on 8 o clock as they opened the doors, the queue was already snaked up and down the parking lanes 4 times and around the outside edge of the car perimeter, store side and then store front. I thought F that and drove down the road to Lidl where there was about 30 people in the queue, but even then it took almost an hour before I was allowed in the store. Once inside though it was almost back to normal with most stuff on the shelf in reasonable volumes. The shopping trip, to just 2 shops, next to each other, Lidls and FarmFoods, took almost 2 and a half hours
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I went to a local Polish deli and a greengrocer. I was very annoyed to have to wait 5-10 minutes to get in each of those. It looks like "YMMV" ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsmiley.gif.pagespeed.ic.R8GFI-pF6f.png)
Greengrocer, cor, I havent seen one of those for years, where in the Galaxy do you live then ![Confused :-//](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/confused0024.gif.pagespeed.ce.5xOqKkq0Co.gif)
Brizzle
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I can think of three[1] in Brizzle that I regularly visit, one farm shop at the end of my village (5 miles from the city centre
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, and another in the nearby 60s overflow town.
Mind you, up in the 80s and 90s sprawl on the other side of town there are zero greengrocers
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But who wants to live in a desert like that
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One was shut today, possibly for the duration.
In other news, the regional shipping centre is to lose its Boots. I wasn't surprised that my mother's local one will shut, but the regional shopping center?!