After months of indecision, the government are now making it mandatory to wear face coverings in shops. But not until a week on Friday 
Where are the officers going to come from to police this?
There are not enough police officers to reduce, or investigate, real crime, yet now they need to be in every shop 
Very few wearing masks in IKEA Birmingham yesterday.
People still arenāt wearing them on public transport. So unfortunately I think many will ignore this, and as you say it canāt be enforced due to insufficient resource.
I canāt wear them anyway on tfl or in shops when introduced. I have had a heart operation last year and I have breathing problems
wonāt it be "policed " by the shop owners , employees , door staff ?
March - āYou donāt need to wear masksā
April - āYou donāt need to wear masksā
May - āYou donāt need to wear masksā
Early June - āYou donāt need to wear masksā
15/6 - āYou must wear a mask on public transportā
July - āYou only need to wear a mask on public transport. Please go shopping and support businessesā
24/7 - āYou must wear a mask in shops now, weāve decided itās riskyā
Itās nice to know that Covid-19 plays by the rules so between now and the 24th itās agreed a cease fire and wonāt infect anyone else, the games up on mask day though itās going to be out in force
The article says staff wonāt be expected to enforce the rules, I think the unions pushed for this.
But Iām sure some shops will try to enforce.
should have read the article not just the headline 
Maybe be a case of āno mask, no entryā and if someone kicks off the police get involved?
The fine should hopefully be a deterrent for the majority of people to comply. And I wonder how those who are exempt from wearing a mask will identify themselves?
Youāll get some d*ckheads claiming they have asthma when they donāt just because theyāre too selfish to wear a mask.
Iāve not seen a single person wearing a mask when iāve gone to greggs or morrisons.
Honestly I can see this pushing more shopping online or people holding onto money even more. The exact opposite the government wants.
Iām likley to not bother going out and just ordering alcohol off amazon and eating what I buy from work because I just canāt be bothered.
I can say this as a key worker alot of us are real against alot of the lockdown but we feel that people have spoken for us and we dare not speak out for the outrage it would cause. (We never wore masks at work all the way through)
USDAW are correct on this would cause shopworker abuse, something thats already a problem. (Iām on the distribution part of the unions scope tho)
Iāve really had enough (Had a angry person tell me thats not essential shopping buying beer and a pizza after a 12 hour shift yesterday)
Iām happy because I work in eCommerce so my jobs more secure than ever.
Masks were only made compulsory on public transport on Friday here. I was the only passenger and wore my mask, the drivers still are maskless
Iāve avoided anything except small local shops since March so if they brought compulsory masks in here Iād be more likely to go to the shops in town
Masks have been mandatory in Scotland since the 10th of July - everyone seems to be adhering well to this. Shops donāt seem to be enforcing people who donāt wear one but Iād say 97% of people are wearing them (that Iāve seen).
The Tesco Metro near me is already enforcing a queue for entry, so making sure each person has a mask should be easy. I think most people will comply.
The security guard on the door was mainly dealing with a woman who was utterly trollied and wandering around disrupting the queue and threatening to pee on the wallā¦
Such medical exemptions are likely to be pretty rare. There will be very few people who are well enough to get around the TFL network, on and off trains, around stations, etc who are also so breathless that they canāt wear a mask. Even those with severe COPD needing long term oxygen can usually tolerate a simple face covering fairly well.
Staff donāt enforce things at the best of times.
How many shops do you see with a no food/drink sign and then people walking around with it?
This is far more political, the videos of Americanās fighting people because they are asked to wear them are the extremes, but does someone want to challenge someone for not wearing a mask? And thatās before you get into the people that arenāt wearing them for whatever legitimate reason.
Yeah I donāt get that, if you donāt want to wear a mask shop online its that simple.
Itās worrying for the rise in shopworker abuse it will cause by the minority. (They are underpaid and underappreciated as it is)
Months ago before it all went crazy I remember how I posted in the main corona thread saying how everyone should be wearing masks but was shot down by people claiming that the scientists at Public Health England were trustworthy when saying masks donāt workā¦
I get abused on a daily basis by patients who donāt want to social distance and the stories Iāve heard from staff who work in the hospital are horrendous
Abuse is the new normal unfortunately
I think mask wearing in shops might become a way of reducing the queues outside.
I received an email from TfL today to say that the passenger capacity on double deckers is increasing from 20 to 30. I assume that they believe that passenger compliance is sufficiently high to allow this.
My anecdotal experience of London buses suggests that compliance has improved recently, and Iād say itās now at 70-80% (although Iāve also seen barber shops where no one is wearing any form of PPE).
Where are we buying our masks from then? A friendās mum was making them at the beginning of lockdown but the fits not great so Iām looking for a replacement.