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A Bunnings customer was spat on by another shopper during an argument about wearing a face mask inside the store.
Police are scouring CCTV from the Sydney hardware store to find the 'disgusting' attacker.
NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Gary Worboys said a 51-year-old man was being harassed for not adhering to public health orders.
'The man who was doing the chastising decided to spit at that man,' he told reporters on Thursday morning.
Police are hunting a man who spat on a Bunnings shopper for not wearing a face mask (file image)
'That behaviour is just disgusting... [If] people have an issue that they cannot resolve with some cordial communication... [at] these retail settings, they should ring the police,' he said.
Officers were reviewing security footage at the store and asked anyone who might have witnessed the incident or have information to contact police.
'There is no room [for] what is a criminal act, to go and spit at a person because you don't like
