Employees, shop owners and customers at Seacon Square shopping mall have mixed feelings over the government's decision to ease business lockdown measures from Wednesday.

The Bangkok Post spoke to people at the shopping mall, asking them to share their views on the first-day reopening of their businesses.

A 26-year-old employee at a mobile phone shop said that since the mall reopened at 11am, things were still  quiet.

Since she opened her shop on Wednesday, she had earned only 300 baht from selling IT accessories.

Shopping mall closures might be on the cards as infections in the country were still hitting more than 10,000 cases a day.

"I don't think this reopening will last long," she said. "A new cluster may happen again when they allow crowds of people into the mall."

A housewife, 54, was resting after grocery shopping.

"People get really close together. I try my best to stay away from the crowd as I could get the virus from them," she said.

She said her husband and her children used to regularly go shopping at this mall but during these times they dared not leave home.

"I don't think this reopening will last long. People are still getting infected and people are here, which is a good place for the virus to spread and mutate,'' she said.

However, Pranom Yomchan, 62, a socks and handkerchief shop owner in the mall, was optimistic about the reopening of her shop on Wednesday.

She said that even if Covid-19 cases were rising, she was confident the reopening would last as people now know more about how to take care of themselves and follow the government's rules to curb the spread of Covid-19.