Normality
Masks on
Sanitize your hands.
Enter this way,
Follow the route as planned,
One way around the shop
Don't touch the products
Don't sneeze or cough,
Or get too near.
Shuffling past 2 metres apart
For fear of brushing
Against someone outside
Your carefully selected bubble.
Sorry, 'scuse me, don't mean
To cause trouble.
Empty shops closed shops
Retail staff idly waiting
The tills stay silent, hopeful
Anticipating the Saturday rush
That doesn't come.
The new normal
As the footfall stills
Is this new normal forever?
Or will we ever
Go back to normal again?
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What an odd experience it is shopping these days. In the larger department stores it feels as if half the stock has been removed to create space and shop assistants outnumber customers.
Every customer is adorned in a colourful mask, that seeps paranoia from underneath. A palpable nervousness.
This time next year will these shops still be here? Or will online have conquered all? #coronavirus #coronavirusuk #covid19 #shopping #retail
