Changed Shopping Experience in April 2020

Image: © Hywel Williams Taken: 9 Apr 2020

Just a small example of how every day life changed UTTERLY in March/April 2020 due to the CoVid-19 Coronavirus) pandemic. Just a month ago, shopping in Tesco was an every day routine. You went in, you bought your stuff and you left. You didn't think any more about it. Just a month later, you have to queue for around 10 minutes with tape, signs and notices everywhere telling you to keep 2 metres apart. Large swathes of car park are now closed to allow people more space to get into the queue. People are being let in to the supermarket on a one in, one out (and even couples aren't allowed to shop together). There's a cleaning station to disinfect the shopping trolley (though I have my doubts about how effective this is). Even inside, it's an utterly surreal experience of taped off floors where only one person is allowed in each "segment" at a time. And of course, the entire public is now almost on "house arrest" and unable to go out and about taking pictures and enjoying the countryside as we were able to do, just a month ago.

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