HOW long would you queue for a fashion fix?
Hundreds of shoppers have formed long chains along English high streets as retail giants like Primark and other stores reopened for the first time since lockdown began.
The move comes ahead of an announcement later this week that could see tills ring again in non-essential stores in Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon will reveal whether or not that's been deemed safe on Thursday.
Today shoppers in England have been urged to "be sensible" as the UK Government seeks to begin reopening the economy there "gradually and carefully".
This morning shoppers waited outside Primark branches in locations including Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool and Nottingham, with John Lewis, TK Maxx, Footlocker and other stores also attracting enthusiastic custom.
Zoos and safari parks there are also welcoming back visitors from today, with places of worship allowed to reopen for private prayer and some secondary school pupils starting to return to their classrooms.
Small Business Minister Paul Scully told BBC Breakfast: "The high street is going to be a different place to what it was before, with the one-way systems, with the hand sanitisers, and with people not trying clothes on in the same way.
"But, nonetheless, it is safe to shop. I would encourage people to be sensible, work with the people in the shop but do go out and shop, and start opening our economy gradually and carefully."
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