Employees, meanwhile, are working tireless to keep queues flowing and shelves stocked, while every till is being manned with up to (customers waiting at each one.
Hundreds of shoppers were seen queuing outside an Aldi in Wales at 8am this morning, while dozens of others were waiting at a nearby Morrisons from as early as 6. am to ensure they were first through the door.
Many stores are also facing basket and trolley shortages and offering customers cardboard boxes instead.
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are scenes of “chaos”Supermarkets across Wales are also heaving with people reporting long queues stretching down the aisles from as early as 6am this morning.
) Tesco customer Mike Wyn Davies described the shop as “absolute madness”, adding that there were at least six checkouts that were not operating.
He estimated that the queue for the checkout was around one hour long at one point.
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Other shoppers were spotted queuing outside Marks and Spencer in Fforest Fach just before 7am this morning waiting for the shop to open.
Waitrose has also been described as “chaos”.
M&S in Culverhouse Cross was “crazy busy” at 9. am this morning with queues stretching right back to the doors.
One shopper said that people were seeing how far back the queues are and turning back around.
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Michael Phliips, a customer, told Wales Online:“This is better than it was when I got in at 9am, you couldn’t move around by the tills. I ‘m taking pictures to send to my wife at home to show how busy it is. “
Another customer claimed the same store was” bonkers “.
Shopper Sharon Rees said: “We did not expect it to be this busy. We thought the rush would be over. When we came here on a Saturday morning to do our shopping you can usually go straight to a till.
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“We have been here since just after 9am, me and my daughter have been taking in turns standing in the queue while the other goes and gets our stuff to put in the trolley.”
Shoppers in the M&S branch in Swansea said earlier today that staff were informing customers there was a minute queue time.
Tesco Extra in Culverhouse Cross was also heaving, with all the tills open and huge queues.
Another bemused shopper said they had ‘just about got out of Asda alive’.
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OneTwitteruser added: “It’s like the seven circles of hell in Tesco. Shops are only shut for a day but people stockpiling like an episode of walking dead. ”
Meanwhile, in Hull some Tesco customers said they were waiting for over an hour to pick up just one item.
Ann Hewitt, (****************************************************************************************, of Barton, said it had been “a nightmare”.
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She told Hull Live: “We have just come out of there and it was bedlam. We went up for the photo booth and to get more wrapping paper.
“I’d say we must have been there for an hour and a half and three- quarters of that was queuing to pay for the wrapping paper. ”
Sylvia Dyas, 90, also of Barton, added: “They could do with more counters and more people. It was a pain in the a ***. It’s not enough at this time of year. ”
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Danelle Dyas, 90, who was shopping with her nine-month old daughter, said: “Oh my god it is ridiculous.
“I got some pictures printed and little bits for her. It was mayhem.
“It’s all part of the Christmas madness.”
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