Non-essential shops have opened and people are queuing up to joke about it – our 16 favourites
10.
if you survived the Quarantine rave and shopping at NikeTown today and want a bigger Covid challenge just wait until the big one next month: Wetherspoons 👍
— end of daves ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@davemacladd) June 15, 2020
11.
CUSTOMER: why has your colleague got a larger plastic face covering than you?
SHOP ASSISTANT: that’s the supervisor.
— GlennyRodge (@GlennyRodge) June 15, 2020
12.
*fires up the romcom template* pic.twitter.com/eCVJkyVR6c
— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) June 15, 2020
13.
Don’t go shopping yet. You'll have to fight your way through the crowds of media reporting on shocking scenes of people going shopping.
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) June 15, 2020
14.
First time I went into “town” in #Ealing Broadway since March…it’s changed a lot! 😮 pic.twitter.com/CN2FtcpHsi
— Tomasz Schafernaker (@Schafernaker) June 13, 2020
15.
You still can’t hug your nan but at least you can go to Primark and buy a £1.99 t-shirt emblazoned with ‘the only time I want corona is when it’s served chilled with a wedge of lime’ in sequins.
— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) June 14, 2020
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Just bought condoms and the cashier didn't try to hi-five me. Covid has changed the world
— Pessimus Prime Minister (@BigJDubz) June 11, 2020
It’s important to remember that while shoppers weren’t in the shops, the workers weren’t there either.
I dropped a pair of shoes off to be mended just before the lockdown started. Three months later, the shops are finally open again so I went in this morning to collect them and was told 'they'll be ready Thursday'.
— Ian Wilson (@felicefan) June 15, 2020
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