Today sees thousands of non-essential shops reopen their stores to customers.
One of the most-highly anticipated store reopenings has been Primark - which has already seen huge queues of shoppers forming outside, despite having not opened yet.
In Liverpool, queues were so long the city centre store was forced to open early, reports the ECHO.
Despite being scheduled to open at 8am, however given the amount of people waiting, staff opened doors around 7.15am - although it is not clear if customers were allowed to buy any items or just browse collections.
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In Manchester, shoppers queued from 6.30am outside Primark in Stockport this morning.
The line snaked all the way around the Merseyway building and on to Great Underbank as the doors opened at 8.30am.First in the queue was Georgia Robertson, 17, from Wilmslow, who was enjoying her first outing since lockdown began back in March.
“We woke up at 5am and got here at 6.30,” she said.“I’ve not been out for the past three months. We go out around the block but we’ve not been anywhere else.”With the sun shining on the day non-essential retail is allowed to open, she said she was looking forward to buying some summer clothes.
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“They’ve said they don’t know how many people they are letting into the store, that makes me feel a bit on edge,” she admitted.
Philippa Nibbs, Primark’s director of sales, told the Mirror: "We are incredibly excited about opening next week. The safety of our customers and employees is our number one priority and you’ll see throughout the store the extensive measures we’ve put in place to support that."
