I now by preference use the self-checkout at my local Co-op, out of consideration to the person behind the counter.

But it also feels much better to use the self-checkout when I know the next person in the queue is two metres away –  I feel somehow less pressured, less rushed.

Will this change of feeling last beyond the crisis?   Who knows?  On my part I doubt it.

But I may not have the choice.

There may not even be a supermarket.

We really are living in interesting times.