Asda shoppers queue around entire Manchester store with 'shelves bare' as it reopens after Queen's funeral
Asda shoppers queued around the entire store this evening as the shop reopened following the Queen's funeral. The supermarket giant along with others announced they would be closing from midnight on Sunday before reopening at 5pm on Monday after the state funeral.
Other supermarkets, such as Sainsbury’s, previously announced that all its stores would be closed on the day of the funeral except for the convenience stores and petrol stations, which opened from 5pm to 10pm for essentials. All Morrisons stores closed, with just their petrol stations reopening at 5pm, with only Tesco Express stores opening from 5pm apart from a select few in London.And elsewhere in the region, hungry customers queued around the block as McDonald's branches also reopened.
"Honestly we got there at around 5.45pm and there was already a queue all the way around the store," they told the M.E.N. "From what we saw there was a few main tills on and then the self service tills.
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