If you have like minded friends you could get together and enter shops on mass without masks to test the governments mandate on wearing them. If you are stopped you could tell then that others in the shop are not wearing them. If lots of people resist then they cannot enforce it.
I'm in Suffolk. Would be right up for this. Anyone want to join me. Will video the adventure post on social media
I'm in Cambridgeshire. I am not going into any of these shops, but should I have to go in, I will not wear a mask.
I did a scout around tonight with the poster someone shared on here.
M&S Food staff say they have been told M&S will be enforcing Mask wearing and further discussions about this topic need to go to their Media team. The 2 staff I spoke with were very pleasant. I asked them if they had heard of KBF? also did they realise that a LOT of people will not be masking up and will vote with their feet? no and no......
Then went to local (small) Tesco and Co-op - they were both very understanding.... I changed tack slightly.....went for the 'don't know if u realise it but thousands of people can't wear masks and they are anxious and nervous they will be bullied and shamed when they come in to get their food'.....both shops took the poster to show management and were again pleasant and human about it.....they said they have been told not to approach customers who chose not to wear a mask....
Went to LIDL and Mgr said he understood and they would not be approaching people to interrogate them but could not put up the poster as an official Notice has to go thro Customer Services....
Went to late night Esso station with food shop and she was great, took the poster, said she completely got it and couldn't see any reason why they wouldn't put it in the window...
Last stop was Sainsburys.....Mgr told me that again he cannot use the poster I was offering as anything they put up has to come from Head Office but he said they have been told not to approach the non-complying customers .....he said no-one is going to know why people aren't wearing masks and staff are not going to ask them or assume anything..... they have staff who are disabled or with health issues who can't wear them so they are understanding of the situation....he can't stop other customers from getting shirty but they are not going to be turning anyone away for not wearing a mask....
So my conclusion from all of this is that it will be pretty much business as usual in most of the food shops I go to. I still want to go up the High St of the town I do organic shopping in with the posters.....
but I'd be really surprised if the Organic crowd are being Nazis.
Sadly our local Organic market garden that we have shopped with for years adopted masks voluntarily when Wales was allowing tourists back in. Wales still has no compulsory mask lies...sorry laws! But he decided that he would crack on anyway, suffice to say he lost our custom.
Ireland masking :)
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Well done to Sainsbury's in Horsham just walk in without being challenge about not wearing a face mask. Unlike One Stop in Horsham who refused entry to my elderly father, who has been a regular customer for years. So now they lost his custom in the future, now transferring to the local Tesco who did not challenge him.
That’s horrible for your Dad Adrian. It seems that the more self righteous (yet so misguided) managers in individual shops are the less likely you can go in unmasked.
My local Tescos and Aldi I am now boycotting. Whereas my Co-op, where the manager is pretty cool is completely accepting of me without a mask.