READERS’ COMMENTS

Shops set to reopen with a number of new guidelines...

MICHELLE EVANS

We should be supporting this where possible... a lot of people work in the Potteries. Most people have been to supermarkets and so on. If places don’t start to trade soon they will close.

PAUL SMITH

It’s too soon to open shops until at least the end of June. Why take measures if it’s fine to open?

SHARON MOULD

People need to realise lives have changed for the foreseeable future, at least until there’s a vaccine. If you’re not comfortable with the new rules for shopping, don’t go, it’s as simple as that.

NICOLA OAKES

It is sadly going to ruin High Street shopping as you may as well order online where returns are easier and free.

LYNN HARDY

You need time to browse and if people are waiting to come in it makes you feel under pressure.