The new retail reality begins tomorrow when the first phase of restrictions are lifted allowing some categories of shops and businesses to reopen to the public for the first time in eight weeks.
Hardware stores, bicycle shops and garden centres are among the first shops to be back open, but it will be a new customer experience for sure.
All stores have been busy implementing social distancing signage to remind customers to adhere to the two metre physical separation from others, one way systems have been introduced, perspex sneeze screens have been installed at most cash points, hand sanitisers placed at most store entrances, and the yellow Covid-19 signage now as familiar as the goods on the shelves.