How have independent shopkeepers been faring in the coronavirus pandemic?
"I just said 'wow'." Mark Healey says he was stunned to see customers fight over meat products
As panic-buying happened across the country in March, Mr Healey couldn't sell meat quickly enough from his shop in Erdington High Street, Birmingham. "We've acquired the supermarket customer - we'd lost them for about 10 years now. I think we'll keep them too."As lockdown rules were eased last week, shoppers - many wearing masks - filled Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham some four miles north-east of the city centre.
"I've had to close our shop in Wolverhampton city centre because there's no food shops around it so people aren't going in. But here, we've been very busy. People have been coming in saying, 'We didn't know you were here'."Paul Beresford is grateful for a government grant he has received to help keep his pet shops afloat
"I walked into the shop and had such a shock - it looked completely empty because these huge cases had filled the shop and they were all gone."
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