ghost shopping

Right, first we need some earworm.

This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
Too much fighting on the dance floor

(or put the video on in the background)

Now imagine it's Saturday night, and you're wondering round a supermarket that feels like it's in an ex Russian republic. And you keep doing the nyah nyah nyaaaah bit from ghost town, then looking round guilty in case someone heard you. That was my visit to tescos.

They're currently in the middle of turning it from being a tescos into a tescos extra. The car park has gained a portacabin that says "temporary store" on the side. But the main shop is still open....




Sadly like Russia, there's not a lot to buy. But there's plenty of jolly signs telling you there's not a lot left.



Normally on a Saturday night this place would be full of cages of goods, with happy monkeys refilling the shelves.



Anyone for cereal? To make the feeling of doom more complete they had also turned off the background music. So tis basically a shop with no people in it, very little to sell, and an idiot wondering round doing the instrumental bit from ghost town.

If you wanted cheese, broccoli, bananas or haagen dazs ice cream it was your lucky day. These where the only remaining fresh products and where being sold at 10% of normal price or less just to get rid of them.

Idiot Girl likes over priced ice cream, so after phoning her and saying which would you like? (answer: all of them) we went to the till with a trolley full of ice cream, and 1 block of cheese. Then had to get the supervisor to allow us to buy so much of the same stuff. I tried really hard, but could only manage to reduce to humming ghost town while they over rode the till.

We left feeling a mix of joy at a trolley full of ice cream for £10, and sadness for all the tesco monkeys who have been fired.