Morrisons is installing screens at all checkouts in all its supermarkets to help with social distancing amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The protective perspex screens, which are one and a half metres wide and nearly one metre high, will see customers and checkout staff shielded from each other.
The clear barriers will feature messages to explain this social distancing measure and direct customers to small waist-height windows for transactions.
Morrisons stores will continue to take cash but customers will be encouraged to make contactless, Apple Pay or Google Pay card payments if possible.
Morrisons chief executive David Potts said: “We want to do our bit to help customers and colleagues from being affected and to help everyone observe social distancing at our checkouts.
"This will help us to continue to play our full part in feeding the nation – it’s more than our job.”
Morrisons has also upped cleaning in stores, particularly at places regularly touched by customers and colleagues.
The supermarket chain is issuing hand sanitiser to checkout operators at all stores and redeploying colleagues who are vulnerable to the virus where possible.
