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Entries relating to supermarkets.
Suggested home: Shopping & retail / Checkouts & queues
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A digital invoice that destroys a friendship, driven by a psychopathic level of penny-pinching and an inability to let things go.
Read full entry →The blood-sucking strategy of attaching oneself to competent people and taking full credit for their sleepless nights and hard work.
Read full entry →The hyper-focused, agonizingly slow data entry that inevitably results in an 'Incorrect Password' error.
Read full entry →The tactical rerouting of a shopping trip through unhealthy territory to evade small talk.
Read full entry →A loud, flashing notification alerting the entire supermarket that you failed to correctly scan a carrot.
Read full entry →The digital equivalent of walking away while someone is still talking, using a positive emoji as a weapon.
Read full entry →The desperate, watery dilution of hygiene products to delay a trip to the supermarket.
Read full entry →The state of remaining perfectly still for hours to avoid disturbing a resting feline.
Read full entry →The act of smoothly returning luxury goods to a shelf while pretending you just didn't like the color.
Read full entry →A peculiarly British standoff where two innocent parties repeatedly ask for forgiveness until one walks away.
Read full entry →The heart-stopping fraction of a second where your entire company almost sees your online shopping basket.
Read full entry →The blind faith that 'best before' is merely a suggestion, usually resulting in regret.
Read full entry →The shameful abandonment of frozen peas next to the dog food because you couldn't be bothered to walk back.
Read full entry →The hypnotic compulsion to purchase heavy duty machinery alongside your weekly groceries.
Read full entry →The refusal to purchase £80 of goods because the retailer refuses to absorb a minor delivery fee.
Read full entry →The loud, public accusation of theft from a self-checkout machine over a misweighed lemon.
Read full entry →An aggressive, rapid-fire scanning technique by a supermarket employee that overwhelms the customer's bagging speed.
Read full entry →The synchronized, awkward side-stepping performed by two strangers attempting not to collide on a sidewalk.
Read full entry →The exhausting physical struggle against a single jammed wheel in a supermarket.
Read full entry →The humiliating, flashing-red state of being frozen at a supermarket kiosk while everyone watches.
Read full entry →The public broadcasting of your purchases or errors by an automated supermarket machine.
Read full entry →The act of entering credentials at a glacial pace, causing you to forget which key you just pressed.
Read full entry →The awkward side-to-side shuffling when two people try to yield right of way simultaneously.
Read full entry →The aggressive, jarring beep a card machine makes, making you feel like you've stolen something.
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