Can't wait for meadowhall to reopen next week

All stores to have maximum capacities (makes sense) and automatic doors to all stores being locked when stores are at capacity, only being opened as someone exits the store and staying open till the next person has entered (again makes sense). But the fun part is no queues outside stores. Nobody will be allowed to stand still in meadowhall with the rule being keep to the left and keep moving.

Want to go into a shop but find it full when you get there? Keep walking, do laps of meadowhall until you manage to time your arrival back at the shop with someone leaving it. It's highly likely you could have to make many passes of the shop before you time it right while others who arrive after you can just stroll in before you are allowed to.

Let the games begin

 

My Mrs has one of them step counters and it does my box in. She often suddenly starts marching around the house before bed if she's short.

Might just send her to Meadowhall every day.

 

Send her in and tell her it's important that she buys something from Poundland. In my experience that's the busiest shop in there so she could clock up a few miles

 

The automatic doors make sense they have them at Aldi now. I can understand why they don't want any queues but I imagine the reality will be a little different. Personally I won't be bothering with pubs, restaurants and most shops while social distancing is in place, i simply can't be bothered.

 

I didn't think it was possible to make a trip to Meadowhall any less appealing than it already is but I was wrong.

 

I've often commented that people who say "At least it can't get any worse" simply lack imagination.

 

Somewhere else for the oiks to go to. Give the parks and countryside a rest from their despoilment and littering. Trails of cans, **** stained wet wipes, takeaway boxes and tagged trees everywhere.

 

Sounds like musical chairs. It'll be a bloodbath every time the door slides open at the most popular shops.

 

Surely they've got to limit numbers to the centre itself.

 

No schools though. Makes sense.

 

Another reason to renew the season ticket. I’d just run that as an advert.

 

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For me it can stay shut and crumble to the ground.

 

It's not going to be fun when they see how few people are going to visit there. High street and shopping centre retail is dead (especially high street). It was already struggling and now they expect people to turn their backs on online shopping, get back in to the habit of shopping in public and put up with all the silly restrictions.

 

You’ve not met my mum and auntie. They’d happily queue all day at meadowhall to do some shopping there.

 

Lots of people like to just browse and go shopping for a meet up with friends and a look around. Like some go to the football mainly to meet mates and have a drink and a catch up and the football is secondary, a lot of people go shopping for a meet up and a chat (with maybe a tea and cake break) and the shopping itself is secondary. It's a place to go to get out of the house and then the hope of the shops is that people's eye gets caught whilst they are there and they buy something.

 

Our lass would wholeheartedly agree with you. She's always telling me that I lack imagination.

 

‘Silly restrictions’ in another thread about Coventry City fans celebrating their promotion, you mention of a second spike of the virus in Coventry. Please feel free to clarify what you think public restrictions should be, and for what

 

I don't think the Coventry fans celebrating with no social distancing will result in a spike in the Midlands. I don't think the BLM protests all over the UK last week will result in a spike either. I think we are nearing the end of social distancing and expect it to be over sometime in August as figures continue to tumble. Another record low Wednesday today.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-uk-coronavirus-hospital-death-22167856

 

I really hope that's the case.