Queues formed on high streets across Suffolk this morning as non-essential retailers opened their doors for the first time in four months; with shoppers heading out to buy leather shoes, soft toys and even a pair of wedding rings.
Scores of people queued to enter Debenhams in Ipswich on Monday morning as the department store began huge closing down sales.
And in Bury St Edmunds people also flocked to the department store's last sale.
But what else were those shoppers keen to get their hands on?
Here is what a selection of independent retailers said were their first sales:
Beautiful Beers, St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds: Belgian beer glass
René van den Oort said his first sale came at 10.20am — 40 minutes before he had even planned to open — as he had customers waiting outside.
"It was a Corbeau beer glass," he said. "It's a very special glass. It's beautiful. It's got a stem in the shape of a raven."
The Italian Shirt Shop, St Peter's Street, Ipswich: soft leather shoes
Antonio Bellini said his first customer had been window shopping outside the store a week before he opened.
He said: "Funnily enough, the man who bought the pair of shoes in the window, he was looking through my window when I was cleaning it about a week ago. So he'd already seen them in the window, the shoes that he desperately wanted."
Andrews Jewellers, Buttermarket, Ipswich: a pair of wedding rings
Alan Greenwood, manager of Andrews jewellers at the Buttermarket, said the shop had been busy with sales, resizings and repairs.
"The first thing we sold this morning was two wedding rings," he said. "We had a couple come in. They hummed and harred, they went out. And then they came back again.
"That was our first sale this morning, which was lovely."
Mr Greenwood said the rings were a "substantial sale" and the shop had also been "inundated" with repairs and battery replacements.
Coes, Norwich Road, Ipswich: running trainers
In a major change to its operations Coes department store announced that it would be opening six days a week as it re-opened.
Among the first sales it made on Monday were running shoes, said Fiona Coe, the store's marketing manager.
"One of the first things we sold was running trainers," she said.
"People have probably been holding off until we opened to the gait analysis machine and get some advice rather than just buy online."
But Mrs Coe said the store had a "really broad morning morning of sales".
"People are definitely coming in and topping up on things that they've missed out on or grown out of," she said.
The Parsley Pot, Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds: a ragdoll
Suzanne Cooper, owner of the Abbeygate Street gift shop, said it had been "lovely" to reopen in person.
"The town is full of people wanting to shop," she said.
"We had a steady stream of customers, all age groups and all sorts of people. I think the first thing we sold was a ragdoll or some jelly cats, and a soft toy, to a grandma."
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