How far Britain’s virtual shopping queues would stretch
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As many of Britain’s high-street stores reopen their doors, we’ve imagined how long the socially distanced queues for your favourite shopping websites would be.
If daily traffic was represented by people in a line (two metres apart, of course), Primark’s queue could fill its huge Birmingham store 3,719 times over.
Here’s how some of more of your favourite shops would measure up:
- Greggs’ queue would be as long as 240,444 sausage rolls
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- Asos’ queue would reach from Land’s End to John o’ Groats
- Sports Direct’s queue would be the length of 4,593 football pitches
- Ikea’s queue would be the same length as 435,644 Billy bookcases
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- Currys’ queue would be as long as 1.3 million washing machines side-by-side
- Waterstones’ queue would be equivalent to a stack of 2.3 million copies of War And Peace
- Boots’ queue would be as long as almost 5 million toothbrushes
- Halfords’ queue would be as long as around 250,000 bicycles
- John Lewis’ queue would go from London to Newcastle upon Tyne and back
- Amazon’s queue length would be over 40,590 times The Shard’s height
Virtual queues compared
- Amazon UK = 7,810 miles
- Asos = 891 miles
- John Lewis = 617 miles
- Ikea = 563 miles
- Boots = 547 miles
- Currys = 501 miles
- Halfords = 269 miles
- Sports Direct = 257 miles
- Primark = 157 miles
- Waterstones = 83 miles
- Greggs = 22 miles
You can find the full data used for these calculations here.
