Remember when a trip to the supermarket was a mundane experience?

Whether it was Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons or Tesco - we knew where we stood.

Walk in, walk out, job done.

However, for the last 15 weeks a trip to the supermarket has been anything but a speedy process.

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Whether it's queuing in the rain, dodging trolleys or getting lost in the social distancing walkways - we've all had our fair share of tricky experiences during lockdown.

We asked KentLive readers to tell us the most annoying thing that has happened to them in supermarkets during the pandemic.

This is what they said.

'People being disrespectful to staff'

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Throughout lockdown many supermarkets have been operating special hours for the most vulnerable among us to shop in safety.

However, it wasn't all plain sailing.

Renny Barwick said: " I visited the supermarket with my nan during the special hour and a normal member of the public almost hit my ankles with a trolley cause it was a small gap getting in and they were too impatient."

Angela McHutchon had a good deed backfire in her face.

She recalled: "I thanked a worker in Lidl and said where would we be without you. His answer was "at home."

"He seemed angry to be at work."

Tom Gooden had the opposite problem and claimed he had seen people being rude to staff.

He said: "People were being disrespectful to to the staff, especially at the beginning of lockdown when the volume of items were monitored more.

"There's no need for it, they haven’t been furloughed or have the option to work from home."

'You try to get past and they tut at you'

'Speedy shopping'

Other people had trouble with the new one way systems implemented in some supermarkets.

Sue Marsh said: "People weren't complying with the one way system that supermarkets have put in place."

Other people, like David Louis Goodwin have found the new system cumbersome.

He said: "A man and woman quite large, filling the whole aisle by walking side by side slowly and lady says why aren't the people walking towards her distancing properly?

"I felt like saying, apart from going back to where they came in, there's nowhere they could go."

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Lee Jenner agreed: "Knowing exactly what you want and you're in a rush and someone is just standing in the middle of the aisle looking at there phone or products on the shelf.

"You say excuse me to get by, and they tut at you."

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'I saw a lady sneeze into her un-gloved hand'

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Finally, some people had problems with other customers practising basic hygiene

Adelena Ventura said: "I saw a lady sneezing into her ungloved hand outside Sainsbury’s while taking her shopping trolley to her car.

"The trolley is then left and other customers have to touch it before the cleaning station inside the store.

"I always take antibacterial wipes with me, but i can see a lot of people that don’t."

Donald Miller also shared a horror story writing: "Someone was standing reading a newspaper at the paper stand, who knows how clean his hands were?"

Who knows indeed, Donald.